Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 / Sexual Inversion

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Title: Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
Author: Havelock Ellis
Release Date: October 8, 2004 [eBook #13611]
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STUDIES

IN THE

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX

VOLUME II

SEXUAL INVERSION

BY

HAVELOCK ELLIS

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

1927

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

It has been remarked by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald that the problem of homosexuality is a problem left over to us by the Middle Ages, which for five hundred years dealt with inverts as it dealt with heretics and witches. To regard the matter thus is to emphasize its social and humanitarian interest rather than its biological and psychological significance. It is no doubt this human interest of the question of inversion, rather than its scientific importance, great as the latter is, which is mainly responsible for the remarkable activity with which the study of homosexuality has been carried on during recent years.
The result has been that, during the fourteen years that have passed since the last edition of this Study was issued, so vast an amount of work has been carried on in this field that the preparation of a new edition of the book has been a long and serious task. Nearly every page

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Title: Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)
Author: Havelock Ellis
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STUDIES

IN THE

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX

VOLUME II

SEXUAL INVERSION

BY

HAVELOCK ELLIS

THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

1927

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION.

It has been remarked by Professor Wilhelm Ostwald that the problem of homosexuality is a problem left over to us by the Middle Ages, which for five hundred years dealt with inverts as it dealt with heretics and witches. To regard the matter thus is to emphasize its social and humanitarian interest rather than its biological and psychological significance. It is no doubt this human interest of the question of inversion, rather than its scientific importance, great as the latter is, which is mainly responsible for the remarkable activity with which the study of homosexuality has been carried on during recent years.
The result has been that, during the fourteen years that have passed since the last edition of this Study was issued, so vast an amount of work has been carried on in this field that the preparation of a new edition of the book has been a long and serious task. Nearly every page has been rewritten or enlarged

in most the inverted tendency seems to be instinctive, and appears at a somewhat early age.

Probably not a very large number of people are even aware that the turning in of the sexual instinct toward persons of the same sex can ever be regarded as inborn, so far as any sexual instinct is inborn.