219). Such cases may be accounted for by
the training and associations involved by the early error in
recognition of sex, and perhaps still more by a really organic
predisposition to homosexuality, although the sexual psychic
characters are not necessarily bound up with the coexistence of
corresponding sexual glands. Halban (_Archiv fuer Gynaekologie_
1903) goes so far as to class the homosexual as "real
pseudohermaphrodites," exactly comparable to a man with a female
breast or a woman with a beard, and proposes to term
homosexuality "pseudohermaphroditus masculinus psychicus." This,
however, is an unnecessary and scarcely satisfactory confusion.
To place the group of homosexual phenomena among other intermediate groups
on the organic bisexual basis is a convenient classification. It can
scarcely be regarded as a complete explanation. It is probable that we may
ultimately find a more fundamental source of these various phenomena in
the stimulating and inhibiting play of the internal secretions.[234] Our
knowledge of the intimate association between the hormones and sexual
phenomena is already sufficient to make such an explanation intelligible;
the complex interaction of the glandular internal secretions and their
liability to varying disturbance in balance may well suffice to account
for the complexity of the phenomena.
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