Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXnon finds that male traits tend to appear on the right sideof the body, female on the left.)Male inverts are sometimesunable to whistle. In both sexes a notable youthfulnessof appearance is often preserved into adult age.The love of green (which is normally a preferred colorchiefly by children and especially girls) is frequently observed.A certain degree of dramatic aptitude is not uncommon,as well as some tendency to vanity and personaladornment, and occasionally a feminine love of ornamentand jewelry. Many of these physical and psychic characteristicsmay be said to indicate some degree of infantilism,and this is in agreement with the view of inversion whichtraces it to a fundamental bisexual basis, for the furtherback we go in the life-history of the individual the nearerwe approach to the bisexual stage.Morally, inverts usually apply to themselves the normalcode, and seek to justify their position. Those who fightagainst their instincts, or permanently disapprove of theirown attitude, or even feel doubtful about it, are a smallminority, less than twenty per cent. This is why so fewinverts seek medical advice. They are fortified in their selfjustificationby the fact that not only in France but inseveral other countries (Italy, Belgium, Holland, etc.)which have been influenced by the Code Napoleon homosexualpractices per se are not touched by the law providedthere has been no violence, no outrage on a minor,and no offense against public decency. England and theUnited States are probably the chief countries in whichthe ancient ecclesiastical jurisdiction against homosexualitystill retains an influence. In these countries, however,the law in this matter causes much difficulty and dispute;it is difficult to decide what homosexual actions amountto a criminal offense; it isonlyin a few cases that theculprits are detected, or even sought, for, as a rule, the