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ual standpoint has as much to complain of as the invert. Their 

 situations greatly resemble each other. The best they can do 

 and the most that is possible is to set aside their vanity and to 

 say to themselves that the sexual act should not be the pivot of 

 their existence. I say their vanity, for vanity and envy some- 

 times derange a man sexually and the idea that others have 

 pleasures which he would like to have is a most powerful 

 tempter. Krafift-Ebbing is the representative of those who 

 claim justice for the invert, and I ask nothing better ; but it 

 ought to be emphasized that his demand has as its basis the 

 theory that every man has a right to sexual satisfaction. If one 

 grants the right to heterosexuals, I do not see how it can be re- 

 fused to the inverts ; especially as the refusal to them in no 

 respect changes the condition of things. But in my opinion 

 every man has not the right to lay claim to the sexual satisfaction 

 of his desires. The same moral law which forbids the hetero- 

 sexual who is epileptic or phthiscial or attainted with any trans- 

 missible disease whatever from perpetuating his scourge and 

 transmitting it, this same law forbids the invert from yielding 

 to his propensities. 



The corrupter, man or woman, is the one who seduces an- 

 other, whether man or woman ; he is one who diminishes the 

 sum of purity or chastity in the world. The corrupter ought 

 to be condemned. The infamous, abject being who lives upon 

 the vices of other and encourages them, a source of moral and 

 physical peril ; the being who extorts hush-money after having 

 aided in the debauch, ought to be suppressed by the most severe 

 measures possible. 



The inverts in their biographies often say that they did not 

 understand the cause their inversion. They have been in love 

 with their friends, they were perhaps loved sexually, etc. ; then 

 they had relations with women and little by Httle discovered 

 that it was not a man whom they had loved, but mankind, that 

 it was not ignorance which had kept them away from women, 

 that their feeble attraction for women was not an accident, etc., 

 but that they had always been uranists or inverts. Then they 

 loved with terror, ardor and enthusiasm some soldier or other, 



