sexual inversion

noun

Definitions

  1. Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw…

    Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits.

    • Congenital sexual inversion—that is to say, sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex—is a comparatively rare phenomenon, so far as our knowledge at present extends.
    • The average homosexual […] [is] a young person from an upper-middle-class family who is deeply troubled by sexual inversion and painfully eager to feel acceptance within home and community.

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