Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 1, Sexual inversion / by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds / by Havelock Ellis.
- Havelock Ellis
- Date:
- 1897
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Studies in the psychology of sex. Vol. 1, Sexual inversion / by Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds / by Havelock Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![cases fellatio is the form preferred. In thirteen cases, i.e., more than half, actual padicatio—usually active, not passive—has been exercised. In all these cases, however, pcedicatio is by no means the habitual or even the pre- ferred method of gratification. It seems to be the preferred method in about six cases. The proportion of paederasts in this group of sexual inverts is larger than I should have been inclined to expect ; whether a wider induction of cases would modify the result 1 Cannot say. Pseudo-sexual Attraction.— It is sometimes supposed that in homosexual relationships one person is always active, physically and emotionally, the other passive. Between men, at all events, this is very frequently not the case, and the invert cannoi tell if he feels like a manor like a woman. Thus, one writes : — In bed with my friend I feel .is he feels, and In- feels as I feel. The result is masturbation, .md nothing more or desire for more on my part. I get it over, too, as soon as possible, in order to come to the best—sleeping arms round each other, or talking so. It remains true, however, that then- may usually be tr,i«- 1 .>.']'* it is possible to call pseud<>-se\ual attraction, bv which I mean a tendencv for the invert to be attracted towards persons unlike himself, so that in his sexual relationships there is a certain semblance of sexual oppo- sition. Inverts are not usually attracted to one another, although there are numerous exceptions to this rule among inverted men, perhaps fewer among inverted women. In at least fifteen—probably many more—of my male cases there is a marked contrast between the subject and the individuals he is attracted to: either he is of somewhat feminine and sensitive nature, and admires more simple and virile natures, or he is fairly vigorous and admires boys, who are often of lower social class. Inverted women also are attracted to more clinging feminine persons.1 A 1 Men, remarks Q , tend to fall in love with boys or youths, boys or vouths with grown men, feminine natures with virile natures and vice versa, cultured natures with uneducated and vice versa, and different races with each other .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2041996x_0140.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
