THREE ESSAYS ON SEXUALITY I. THE SEXUAL ABERRATIONS But this expectation was disappointed. It is impossible to demonstrate so close a connection between the hypothetical viduals bisexual disposition endows him with masculine and psychical hermaphroditism and the established anatomical one. feminine brain centres as well as with somatic organs of sex a general lowering of the sexual instinct and a slight anatomical these centres develop only at puberty, for the most part under atrophy of the organs is found frequently in inverts(cf. Have the influence of the sex-gland, which is independent of them in Frequently, but by he original disposition. But what has just been said of mas usually. The truth must therefore be recognized that inversion culine and feminine brains applies equally to masculine and and somatic hermaphroditism are on the whole independent of feminine centres' and incidentally we have not even any each othe grounds for assuming that certain areas of the brain('centres' a great deal of importance, too, has been attached to what are set aside for the functions of sex, as is the case, for instance, are called the secondary and tertiary sexual characters and to with those of speech. 1 he great frequency of the occurrence of those of the opposite Nevertheless, two things emerge from these discussions. In sex in inverts( f. Havelock Ellis, 1915). Much of this the first place, a bisexual disposition is somehow concerned correct; but it should never be forgotten that in general the It appears(from a bibliography given in the sixth volum ry sexual characters of one sex occur very frequently in the opposite one. They are indications of her- suggest bisexuality January, 1884, he explanation of inversion, As long ago as in maphroditism, but are not attended by any change of sexual paper,'Les aberra object in the direction of inversion. Psychical hermaphroditism would gain substance ifthe majority of authors who derive inversion fr that factor not only in the case of inverts, but also for all those who have on of the sexual object were at least a parallel change-over of the subject s other mental qualities, instincts and already writes in this sense. Krafft-Ebing(1895, 10)remarks that ther only in inverted women that character-inversion of this kind istence of this second centre(that of the subordinated sex Dr. Arduin (1900)asserts that 'there are masculine and feminine mental masculinity can be combined with inversion. If the humai f. Hirschfeld, 1899); but one set of belief in psychical hermaphroditism is to be persisted in, it will be necessary to add that its manifestations in various spheres o-e-according to the sex of the person in question-is incomparabl other, so far as heterosexual indi show only slight signs of being mutually determined. More iduals are concerned.. 'Herman(1903)is convinced that'masculine over the same is true of somatic hermaphroditism very woman and remit to Halban( 1903), occurrences of individual atrophied organs the idea of bisexuality (in the se ty of sex) as his o and of secondary sexual characters are to a considerable extent 924:] In lay circles the hypothesis of human bisexuality is regarde ependent of one another being due to O. Weininger, the philosopher, who died at an ea The theory of bisexuality has been expressed in e,and who made the idea the basis of a somewhat unbalanced form by a spokesman of the male inverts: ' a feminine brain in a masculine body. But we are ignorant of what characterizes a importance of bisexuality owed muc feminine brain. There is neither need nor justification for re- Fliess(cf. p. 86 n ) and his forgetfulness of this fact on one occasion placing the psychological problem by the anatomical one Krafit-Ebing's attempted explanation seems to be more exactly framed than that of ulrichs but does not differ from it in A Child is Being B essentials, According to Krafft-Ebing(1895, 5), every indi Section VI). The whole question is gone into in detail by His paper includes a bibliography of the subjec ection I of his introduction to the Fliess correspondence 1950a)]