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Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939

"Sexual Inversion"

This is the view now widely
accepted by investigators of sexual inversion. (Much material
bearing on the history of this conception has been brought
together by Hirschfeld, in _Die Homosexualitaet_, ch. xix, and
previously in "Vom Wesen der Liebe," _Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle
Zwischenstufen_, vol. viii, 1906, pp. 111-133.)
A similar or allied view is now constantly met with in writers of
scientific authority who are only incidentally concerned with the
study of sexual inversion. Thus Halban ("Die Entstehung des
Geschlechtscharaktere," _Archiv fuer Gynaekologie_, 1903) regards
hermaphroditism, which he would extend to the psychic sphere, as
a state in which a double sexual impulse determines the course of
fetal and later development. Shattock and Seligmann ("True
Hermaphroditism in the Domestic Fowl, with Remarks on
Allopterotism," _Transactions of Pathological Society of London_,
vol. lvii, part i, 1906), pointing out that mere atrophy of the
ovary cannot account for the appearance in the hen bird of male
characters which are not retrogressive but progressive, argues
that such birds are really bisexual or hermaphrodite, either by
the single "ovary" being really bisexual, as was the case with a
fowl they examined, or that the sexual glands are paired, one
being male and the other female, or else that there is misplaced
male tissue in a neighboring viscus like the adrenal or kidney,
the male elements asserting themselves when the female elements
degenerate.


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