URANISM, CONGENITAL SEXUAL INVERSION. 

 Obsefvations and Recommendations by 



Marc Andre Raffalovich. 



INTRODUCTION. 



Filise Luxurise sunt octo, scilicet coecitas mentis, 

 inconsideratio, praecipitatio, inconstantia, amor 

 Bui, odium Dei, 'affectus prsesentis sseculi, et des- 

 peratio futuri sfeculi. 



—Thomas Aquinas. 



I have neither desire nor time to write an encyclopedia of 

 inversion, still less to review the discoveries, the opinions and 

 the assertions of other writers and their followers or adversaries. 

 I have wished primarily to submit to my readers certain obser- 

 vations as new and as exact as possible. I have criticized with 

 all possible respect my predecessors, masters or followers ; and I 

 have decided to make an appeal to all those who have at heart 

 the dimunition of suffering and debauchery among the children 

 of the present or the coming generations. 



The education of congenital inverts (or uranists, to employ 

 the word invented by a famous invert) has not yet been under- 

 taken. We are strangely ignorant of the indices of homosex- 

 uality in children. Homosexuality is increasing and will in- 

 crease. We can hardly cure the inverts. Hypnotism is not 

 satisfactory and marriage is the worst of remedies, sacrificing 

 the peace and health of the children to the improbable cure of 

 the father and his doubtful restoration. There are already too 

 many inverts and perverts who are married and who are fathers 

 and hypocrites for marriage to save the honor of a homosexual. 



The education of the uranist is a desideratum ; it will be 

 ere long a necessity. If we apply ourselves to the discovery 

 of the uranistic child, to his development and the amelioration 

 of his condition, if we encourage in him continence, chastity. 



