This has certainly seemed to me the course of events in some
cases I have observed.
ATTITUDE TOWARD THE OPPOSITE SEX.--In 17 cases (of whom 5 are married and
others purposing to marry) there is sexual attraction to both sexes, a
condition formerly called psycho-sexual hermaphroditism, but now more
usually bisexuality. In such cases, although there is pleasure and
satisfaction in relationships with both sexes, there is usually a greater
degree of satisfaction in connection with one sex. Most of the bisexual
prefer their own sex. It is curiously rare to find a person, whether man
or woman, who by choice exercises relationships with both sexes and
prefers the opposite sex. This would seem to indicate that the bisexual
may really be inverts.
In any case bisexuality merges imperceptibly into simple inversion. In at
least 16 of 52 cases of simple inversion in men there has been connection
with women, in some instances only once or twice, in others during several
years, but it was always with an effort, or from a sense of duty and
anxiety to be normal; they never experienced any real pleasure in the act,
or sense of satisfaction after it.
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