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

HOMOSEXUALITYpolice carefully avoid pursuing their traces; and there isnot the slightest reason to suppose that the countrieswhich legislate against inversion possess a smaller, oreven less prominent, proportion of inverts. In France, forinstance, under the ancient monarchy, when an invert was,according to the law, liable to be burned, inversion wassometimes fashionable and conspicuous; at the present daythe reverse is the case. In view of these facts there is todaya movement, which finds support alike in medical and inlegal quarters, in favor of abolishing the punishment ofhomosexual acts except when the circumstances underwhich the acts are committed give them an anti-socialcharacter. It is a powerful argument in favor of suchabolition that it at once puts a stop to the movement ofof homo-agitation, and the tendency to the glorificationsexuality which is undesirable and even in many respectsharmful prevailing in those countries which still regardhomosexuality as a crime.BIBLIOGRAPHYHAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Vol. II,Sexual Inversion.F. A. E. CREW, Art: "Sex" in Outline of Modern Knowledge.G. MARA&6N, The Evolution of Sex and IntersexualConditions.M. W. PECK, "The Sex Life of College Men," Journal ofNervous and Mental Diseases, Jan., 1925.G. V. HAMILTON, A Research in Marriage.K. B. DAVIS, Factors in the Sex Life of Twenty-Two HundredWomen.L. R. BROSTER, "A Review of Sex Characters," BritishMedical Journal, 2 May, 1931.WERNER PICTON, "Male Prostitution in Berlin," HowardJournal, 1931.[233]