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Yet, until recently, comparatively little has been known of sexual
inversion in women. Even so lately as 1901 (after the publication of the
first edition of the present Study), Krafft-Ebing wrote that scarcely
fifty cases had been recorded. The chief monographs devoted but little
space to women.
Krafft-Ebing himself, in the earlier editions of _Psychopathia
Sexualis_, gave little special attention to inversion in women,
although he published a few cases. Moll, however, included a
valuable chapter on the subject in his _Kontraere
Sexualempfindung_, narrating numerous cases, and inversion in
women also received special attention in the present Study.
Hirschfeld, however, in his _Homosexualitaet_ (1914) is the first
authority who has been able to deal with feminine homosexuality
as completely co-ordinate with masculine homosexuality. The two
manifestations, masculine and feminine, are placed on the same
basis and treated together throughout the work.
It is, no doubt, not difficult to account for this retardation in the
investigation of sexual inversion in women.
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