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

  • Edward Carpenter
Date:
1908
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    has thrown a shadow over even the simplest and most natural expressions of an attachment which may, as we have seen, be of the greatest value in national life. That the homosexual feeling, like the hetero- sexual, may lead to public abuses of liberty and decency; that it is often improperly indulged; and that much teaching and instruction on the subject is needed; we of course do not deny. But as, in the case of persons of opposite sex, the law limits itself on the whole to a maintenance of public order, the protection of the weak from violence and insult,f and of the young from their inexperience; so it should be here. The much- needed teaching and the true morality on the subject must be given—as it can only be given— by the spread of proper education and ideas, and not by the clumsy bludgeon of the statute- book.:]: •{•Though it is doubtful whether the marriage-laws even do this. $In France, since the adoption of the Code Napo-\ leon, sexual inversion is tolerated under the same \ restrictions as normal sexuality; and according to Carlier, formerly Chief of the French Police, Paris is not more depraved in this matter than London. Italy in 1889 also adopted the principles of the Code Napo- leon on this point. For further considerations with regard to the Law, see Appendix, pp. 164 and 165.
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