[567] Cf. L. S. A. M. von Römer, “Regarding the Androgynous Idea of Life,” Annual for Sexual Intermediate Stages, 1903, vol. v., pp. 707-940.
[568] M. Hirschfeld, “The Theory and History of Bisexuality,” published in “The Nature of Love,” pp. 93-133 (Leipzig, 1895). Cf. also P. Näcke, “Some Psychiatric Experiences in Support of the Doctrine of Bisexual Vestiges in Mankind,” published in The Annual for Sexual Intermediate Stages, 1906, vol. viii., pp. 583-603.
[569] Cf. C. Lombroso, “Recent Advances in the Study of Criminality,” pp. 109-111 (Gera, 1899).
[570] M. Hirschfeld, “Berlin’s Third Sex,” p. 13.
[571] These pseudo-tribades, belonging mainly to the aristocracy and to the upper middle classes, are known in Parisian slang as “Sapphos,” in contrast to the genuine “Lesbian lovers.”
[572] Cf. my “Contributions to the Etiology of Psychopathia Sexualis,” vol. i., pp. 224-227.
[573] Cf. L. Martineau, “Leçons sur les Déformations Vulvaires et Anales,” p. 21 (Paris, 1885).
[574] Op. cit., pp. 29-31.
[575] Karl Gutzkow writes in a beautiful letter to Max Ring: “Our time is so separative, our hearts beat in so solitary a manner, and yet the need of intimate bonds is there, but who dares to tie them? Any intimate friendship formed between men in early youth disappears like dust before the wind. Then comes the love of woman, which fills the whole of our heart; then follows the care for material existence, which increases our egoism; and the danger that our heart will shrink makes its appearance all too soon. Who draws near to another human being? Who admits that he has need of others, and that his life is a life without love? We all suffer in this way; we should form warm friendships between man and man” (“Berlin in the Time of Reaction,” reminiscences by Max Ring, published in Deutsche Dichtung, 1898, vol. xxiii., pp. 51, 52).
[576] Such a noble love between men shines, for example, from the letters of Count Arthur Gobineau to Prince Philipp zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld. Cf. Prince zu Eulenburg-Hertefeld’s “Eine Erinnerung an Graf Arthur Gobineau,” especially pp. 22, 23 (Stuttgart, 1906).