[802] George Gissing’s “The Unclassed” is a powerful study of the life of a London prostitute.—Translator.
[803] Bayet, “À propos des ‘Avariés’” (Brussels, 1902).
[804] We may include in this category Willy’s “La Môme Picrate,” and also the “Claudine” novels by the same author (“Claudine à l’École,” “Claudine à Paris,” etc.).
[805] Consult also the work “Lieblingsminne und Freundesliebe in der Weltliteratur,” by Elisar von Kupffer.
[806] And at a later date Verlaine wrote other homosexual poems, “Les Hommes,” which for the most part are still unpublished.
[807] A work of similar character to these is the notable novel recently published (February, 1907) “Die Stimme,” by Grete Meisel-Hess (Berlin, 1907).
CHAPTER XXXII
THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE OF THE SEXUAL LIFE
“Stress has been laid upon the harm which can be done by the publication of works dealing with sexual problems. Undoubtedly the pornographic interest of the laity, and also of men of science, does play a part here! But the benefits which the unreserved scientific elucidation of the sexual problem is able to diffuse throughout the widest circles of the population are so extensive that this consideration of any possible harm that may ensue becomes infinitesimal in comparison.”—A. von Schrenck-Notzing.