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HOMOSEXUALITYHAVELOCK ELLIS, Studies inBIBLIOGRAPHYthe Psychology of Sex, Vol.VII, "Eonism."HOMBERG & JOUSSELIN, D'Eon de Beaumont: His Life andTimes.O. FENICHEL, "The Psychology of Transvestism," InternationalJournal of Psycho-analysis, April, 1930.FLUGEL, The Philosophy of Clothes.The Question of TreatmentA condition so uniqueas that of sexual inversion raisesspecial problems. On the one hand there is the similitudeof a complete variation combined in many cases with astate of general good health. Yet we are not in the presenceof a specifichuman mutation. The variation affects a specialfunction, even though it happens to be a functionwith a widely pervading influence on the whole organism.It isonly a variation in the sense that color-blindness is avariation. Oswald Schwartz in a recent searching study(though tending to be metaphysical)still insists that wemust regard homosexuality as morbid, though he is carefulto define "morbidity" as "the insubordination of anorgan to the functional law of the organism," generallydue, he holds, to a retained infantility, so that "morbidity"here has much the same definitional value as Virchow's"pathological." We are not here far from the position ofFreud that predisposition and experience are indissolublylinked, or from those authorities who hold that allgenuinehomosexuality has an innate basis, while acquired forms,due to external pressure, are only pseudo-homosexuality.We are not here primarily concerned with therapeuticalconsiderations. They have been fully discussed by Maran6nand others. But the question of treatment has con-!>45]