Chapter Ii. Vulgar Errors : p. 9 II. VULGAR ERRORS. GIBBON'S remarks upon the legislation of Constantine, Theodosius, and Justinian supply a fair example of the way in which men of learning and open mind have hitherto regarded what, after all, is a phenomenon worthy of cold and calm consideration. "I touch," he says, "with...
Introduction : p. 1 INTRODUCTION. THERE is a passion, or a perversion of appetite, which, like all human passions, has played a considerable part in the world's history for good or evil; but which has hardly yet received the philosophical attention and the scientific investigation it deserves. The reason of this...
V. Literature Medicine : p. 29 V. LITERATURE--MEDICINE. MEDICAL writers upon this subject are comparatively numerous in French and German literature, and they have been multiplying rapidly of late years. The phenomenon of sexual inversion is usually regarded in these books from the point of view of psychopathic...
Chapter Iii. Literature Descriptive : p. 16 III. LITERATURE--DESCRIPTIVE. SEXUAL inversion can boast a voluminous modern literature, little known to general readers. A considerable part of this is pornographic, and need not arrest our attention. 1 A good deal is descriptive, scientific, p. 17 historical, anthropological, apologetical...
Chapter Ix. Epilogue : p. 126 IX. EPILOGUE. THE conclusions to which I am led by this enquiry into sexual inversion are that its several manifestations may be classified under the following categories: (1) Forced abstinence from intercourse with females, or "faute de mieux"; (2) Wantonness and curious seeking after...
Books Consulted : p. vii BOOKS CONSULTED. GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. Chapter XLIV. F. CARLIER. LES DEUX PROSTITUTIONS. Park, Dentu, 1889. A. TARDIEU. ATTENTATS AUX MOEURS. Paris, Ballire, 1878. J. L. CASPER and CARL LIMAN. HANDBUCH DER GERICHTLICHEN MEDICIN. Berlin, Hirschwald...
Title Page : p. i A PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS p. ii Of this work only 100 copies have been printed. No............... p. iii A PROBLEM IN MODERN ETHICS BEING AN INQUIRY INTO THE PHENOMENON OF SEXUAL INVERSION ADDRESSED ESPECIALLY TO MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND JURISTS BY JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS LONDON [1896]...
Chapter Viii. Literature Idealistic : p. 115 VIII. LITERATURE--IDEALISTIC. To speak of Walt Whitman at all in connection with Ulrichs and sexual inversion seems paradoxical. At the outset it must be definitely stated that he has nothing to do with anomalous, abnormal, vicious, or diseased forms of the emotion which males entert...
Chapter Iv. Literature Medico Forensic : p. 21 IV. LITERATURE--MEDICO-FORENSIC. CARLIER'S book deals with the external aspects of inverted sexuality, as this exists in Paris under the special form of prostitution. The author professes to know nothing more about the subject than what came beneath his notice in the daily practice of his...
Suggestions On The Subject Of Sexual Inversi : p. 131 SUGGESTIONS ON THE SUBJECT OF SEXUAL INVERSION IN RELATION TO LAW AND EDUCATION. I. THE laws in force against what are called unnatural offences derive from an edict of Justinian, A.D. 538. The Emperor treated these offences as criminal, on the ground that they brought plagues, famines...
Vi. Literature Historical, Anthropological : p. 75 VI. LITERATURE--HISTORICAL, ANTHROPOLOGICAL. No one has yet attempted a complete history of inverted sexuality in all ages and in all races. This would be well worth doing. Materials, though not extremely plentiful, lie to hand in the religious books and codes of ancient nations...
Chapter Vii. Literature Polemical : p. 84 VII. LITERATURE--POLEMICAL. IT can hardly be said that inverted sexuality received a serious and sympathetic treatment until a German jurist, named Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, began his long warfare against what he considered to be prejudice and ignorance upon a topic of the greatest moment...
Chapter I. Christian Opinion : p. 5 I. CHRISTIAN OPINION. SINCE this enquiry is limited to actual conditions of contemporary life, we need not discuss the various ways in which the phenomenon of sexual inversion has been practically treated by races with whose habits and religions we have no affinity. On the other hand, it is...
