But, as we have seen, there are a considerable number of
more subtle approximations to the opposite sex in inverted persons, both
on the physical and the psychic side. Putting the matter in a purely
speculative shape, it may be said that at conception the organism is
provided with about 50 per cent. of male germs and about 50 per cent. of
female germs, and that, as development proceeds, either the male or the
female germs assume the upper hand, until in the maturely developed
individual only a few aborted germs of the opposite sex are left. In the
homosexual, however, and in the bisexual, we may imagine that the process
has not proceeded normally, on account of some peculiarity in the number
or character of either the original male germs or female germs, or both,
the result being that we have a person who is organically twisted into a
shape that is more fitted for the exercise of the inverted than of the
normal sexual impulse, or else equally fitted for both.[233]
The conception of the latent bisexuality of all males and females
cannot fail to be fairly obvious to intelligent observers of the
human body.
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