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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

He cares little for
anything beyond mutual masturbation and kissing; what he desires
is the love of the male.
In appearance there is nothing abnormal about him except an air
of youth. He is vigorous both in body and mind, and has enormous
power of resisting fatigue. He is an excellent man of business.
Is a patient student. He sees no harm in his homosexual passions.
He is averse to promiscuity. His ideal is a permanent union which
includes sexual relations.

HISTORY XV.--T.S., artist, aged 32. "I was born in England. My
father was a Jew, the first to marry out of his family and to
marry a Christian. My great-grandparents were cousins; he was a
German and she was a Dane. My grandparents were also cousins; he
was a Swede and she was a Dane.
"My maternal grandfather was an English Protestant, and my
maternal grandmother was Irish, fanatically Roman Catholic, and a
very eccentric woman.
"In my father's family there have been many members of note. In
my mother's family there were many renowned lawyers.
"My father had an elder brother who was homosexual.


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