The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women / by Edward Carpenter.

  • Edward Carpenter
Date:
1908
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Credit: The intermediate sex : a study of some transitional types of men and women / by Edward Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “In this country [Britain] we have too long, from a sense of mock modesty, neglected the science relat- ing to sex. In Germany this is not so. There we find workers who have elaborated for themselves a new science, and who have given to the world knowledge which is of the very utmost importance. We now know that there are females with strong male characteristics, and vice-versa. Anatomically and mentally we find all shades existing from the pure genus man to the pure genus woman. Thus there has been constituted what is well named by an illustrious exponent of the science ‘ The Third Sex —Dr. James Burnet, The Medical Times and Hospital Gazette, vol. xxxiv., No. 1497, 10th November, 1906. London. “ Every citizen of age to fulfil his duties as a citizen, whether he be a father or husband, teacher or pupil, master or servant, official or subordinate, has the right, and owes it as a duty, to know the facts of sexual in- version, to combat and to prevent debauchery, crime and vice, to learn and to teach others the place of inversion in Society, and its morals, the duties of the
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