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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![tween white and black women. And Dr. Kiernan informs me that of the three murders from perverted sexual jealousy by women in the United States in two decades, one was a negress's; and of four similar attempts to kill, two were [? by] negresses. A similar affinity is found among the Arabs, says Kocher, and if an Arab woman has a Lesbian friend the latter is usually European. In Cochin-China, too, according to Lorion, while the Chinese are chiefly active paederasts, the Annamites are chiefly passive. In this connection I may refer to the strong attraction which is even normally exerted by people of a different social class from the subject, and also, on many indi- viduals, by uniforms. Physical A bnormalities.—The circumstances under which my cases were investigated usually rendered information under this head difficult to obtain. In one case the penis is very large, while in two others it is distinctly un- developed, and the testicles small and flabby. It seems probable that both these deviations are fairly frequent, especially in the direction of incomplete development. Perhaps the most interesting physical abnormality ob- served in my cases is the fairly well-marked gynecomasty in Case XXII. In this case the breasts swelled and became red ; a similar condition of gynecomasty has been observed in connection with inversion by Moll, Laurent and YYey. My observations on women are too few to permit of any assured result, but I am distinctly of opinion that un- developed sexual organs are frequent among inverted women. Putting together nine cases by various observers (including two original observations) in which attention was paid to the sexual parts, only four were normal; the other five were all, more or less, undeveloped. A tendency to defect of anatomical sexual development is known to be correlated with a general tendency to what is termed infantilism, and also to feminism and masculism. I am much impressed by the frequency with which the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2041996x_0143.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
