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man or the youth whom they can. It must not be forgotten 

 that many men are not in a position to choose. They love the 

 man who is most convenient, most adapted to their situation, 

 most accessible. They cannot gratify their fancies. They do 

 not like to become intimate with a man of the people or with a 

 boy of their own class who is still young and they content 

 themselves with the sexual intimacy within their reach, though 

 longing for some one younger or older. Many of these more fav- 

 ored inverts are not, then, more characteristic than those who 

 can satisfy their caprice. One may find men and women, 

 whose tendencies are heterosexual, of exactly the same kind. 

 . Many heterosexuals have not the person or persons whom they 

 would have preferred, and yet they are content or else they 

 learn to abstain altogether. Many heterosexuals by virtue of 

 that which we ironically call good fortune have utterly trans- 

 formed, tainted, corrupted, themselves. They have vices anal- 

 ogous to those of homosexuals without force of character. All 

 seducers are alike. If people did not always stop at the super- 

 ficial differences between man and woman, if they would look a 

 little deeper, they would understand that the homosexual and 

 the heterosexual are not very different. 



I am now ready to make this assertion which at the first 

 blush may seem a little paradoxical : There is no line of demar- 

 cation between the heterosexual and the homosexual. 



Between the degraded homosexual and the low heterosex- 

 ual there seems to be a sufficient distance, and yet they lie very 

 close together. So also the homosexual of high worth and the 

 heterosexual of equal rank come into very close relations and 

 can hardly be distinguished. The man who allows himself to 

 be dominated by his sexuality and by that of others is sexual 

 before he is uranistic or heterosexual. The man who is above 

 his sexuality can without danger to himself or to others be 

 either homosexual or heterosexual. 



It is not only the extremes which meet here. There are 

 some heterosexuals (as is recognized by all writers on inversion) 

 who are very effeminate, very affected. The heterosexual may 

 even paint and prink and mince along and imitate the graces of 



