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The effeminate inverts sometimes are like heterosexual 

 women and are not attracted to each other sexually, but love 

 each other with affectation and feminine caresses. It should be 

 emphasized that the invert who is satisfied, satiated and fearless 

 chooses the one or ones whom he prefers. He has lovers and 

 friends. He may have for his friends short caprices or tempo- 

 rary connections, but they are not very often of any con- 

 sequence. 



There are some inverted collectors, like the heterosexual 

 collectors, who have a passion for "recognizing" the greatest 

 number of inverts possible. The uranistic physician consulted by 

 Krafft-Ebbing boasted of having known 600 uranists. This 

 figure will not astonish any one familiar with the number of de- 

 bauchees of the world who seek each other out, and with the 

 number of weak men who yield sometimes from curiosity, from 

 impulse, from cupidity, from memory of childhood, from au- 

 thority or from difference of age or rank. 



Inverts have no illusions about each other, youth and the 

 first ignorance once past ; and those who have a passion for 

 heterosexuals have it partly after the manner of women. 

 Heterosexual men seem to them so superior, so sincere, so up- 

 right, so brave, so strong, so frank, etc. They adore in them 

 the virtues in which they find themselves lacking, not because 

 of their inversion by any means, but because they are deceitful, 

 cowards, liars, feeble and faithless. People without integrity, 

 whether men or women, are normally strongly attracted by 

 those who have this integrity, and I believe that it is the in- 

 sincerity and meanness of the effeminate inverts (rather than 

 their inversion) which impels them to the search for a man with- 

 out deceit and subterfuge. 



The effeminate unbosom themselves to each ether freely, 

 but this is only the flattery and politeness of women. There 

 are some women homosexual and heterosexual at the same 

 time. There are correspondingly effeminate men. There are 

 some who are married and heads of families. The}^ paint them- 

 selves as much as their wives or more. There are plenty of them. 



The less prosperous and more eager inverts will love the 



