The Sexual Life of Our Time in Its Relations to Modern Civilization / Translated from the Sixth German Edition

by Iwan Bloch

CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XX

Connexion between pseudo-homosexuality and bisexuality — Great antiquity of the idea of bisexuality — Magnus Hirschfeld’s treatise on bisexuality — Bisexuality of the time of puberty — Pseudo-homosexual tendencies at this period of life — Examples (Gutzkow, Grillparzer) — On the large scale — Analogy to the pseudo-heterosexuality of youthful homosexuals — Persistence of bisexuality — The “Junores” — Delusion of sexual metamorphosis — Cultivation of pæderasts — Women-men and men-women — Brouardel’s type of effeminate Parisian street-arab — Homosexuality in the state of trance — Pseudo-homosexuality owing to the lack of heterosexual intercourse — Anal masturbators — Pseudo-homosexuality of prostitutes — Temporary pseudo-tribadism in Paris — Pseudo-uranism as a popular custom — Explanation of the Greek love of boys — Its fundamental difference from modern true homosexuality — Value of the noble asexual friendship of men for men — A letter of Gutzkow’s — The Platonic Eros and Græco-Oriental pæderasty — Bisexuality in German romanticism — Explanation of this — Hermaphroditism — Previous under-estimation of the importance of hermaphroditism — Recent researches — True hermaphroditism — Pseudo-hermaphroditism — Male and female apparent hermaphrodites.

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