THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS restrictions of sexual aim-to the point of its being limited to which may turn out to be of greater importance to us than the mple outpourings of emotion--are commoner amd solution of that problem. It has been brought to our notice that an among heterosexual lovers. Among women, too, the sexual we have been in the habit of regarding the connection between aims of inverts are various: there seems to be a special prefer- the sexual instinct and the sexual object as more intimate than ence for contact with the mucous membrane of the mouth of conditions, which are very different from one another and which CoNCLUSIoN. It will be seen that we are not in a position to ce both in o base a satisfactory explanation of the origin of in him in giving it a better name, homo-erotism). He insists that a sharp version upon the material at present before us. Nevertheless our put us in possession of a ho feel and behave like female for a male object. The first of these two types he recognizes as P I and the inverted types deve true'sexual intermediatesin Hirschfeld' s sense of the word; the second is the exclusive sexual interest felt by men for he describes, less happily, as obsessional neurotics. According to hi t n based their struggling against their inclinatio ided until after puberty and is th nfluenced psychologically, while granting the result of a number of factors, not all of which are yet known; some ar of a constitutional nature but others are accidental. No doubt a fe these factors may happen to carry so much weight that they infuence a pron. quantity of subject homo-erotism is found in combination with e result eir sense. But in general the multiplicity of deter During the last few ye rears work carried out by biologists, notably strong light on the organic determinants archaic constitutions and primitive psychical mechanisms is regular castration and subsequently grafti nd be found. Their most essential characteristics seem to be a coming to opposite sex, it was possible in the case of various species of mammals operation of narcissistic object-choice and a retention of the erotic ignificance of the anal zone There is nothing to be gained affected more or less completely both the somatic sexual characters and parting the most extreme types of on from the rest on th appeared that the vehicle of the force which thus acted as a sex-determin the of the sex-gland which forms the sex-cells but be what is kno types and of tho anifest attitude is normal. The diffcrences in the end- be of a ative is testes owing to tuberculosis. In his sexual life he behaved in a that the y quantitativ inner, as a passive homosexual, and exhibited very clearly Among the accidental factors that influence object-choice we have eminine seronine sexual characters of a secondary kind(e.g. in rega found that frustration(in the form of an early deterrence, by fear, from growth of hair and beard and deposits of fat on the breasts and hip sexual activity)deserves attention, and we have observed that the fter an undescended testis from another male ent had been afted into him, he began to behave in a masculine manner and to ds women in a respect of the sexual object should be sharply distinguished from that of somatic feminine characters disappeared.(Lipschutz, 1919, 356-7) uld be unjustifiable ssert that these interesting exp the subject of a mixture of sexual cha put the theory of inversion or basis, and it wo elation between factors, too, a certain degree of reciprocal expect them to offer a universal means of'curinghomosexuality. Fliess rightly insisted that these experimental findings do not invalidate ry of the general bisexu ry, it seems to me probable that further research of a similar because they have in common the symptom of inver ge number kind will produce a direct confirmation of this presumption of bisexuality