Raffalovich, Uranism. 63 



Um nichts Besorgniss hegen anderweitig, 



Und hoffen, nie was man gewann, zu niissen, 



Dies Gliick ist raein, das macht mir keimer streitig. 



—Platen. 



NOTE 2. 



Doctor Dallemagne (Deg6ner6s et des^quilibr^s, 1895) cites Moll and trans- 

 lates him thus (page 505) : 



" Les uranistes que j'ai connus appartenaient aux professions les plus 

 " diverses. J'en sais qui sont avocats, medecins, theologians, philologues, 

 " commerpants, officers, ecrivains, acteurs, tapissiers, coiffeurs, et meme, Strange 

 " ironie, tailleurs pour dames. On comprend du reste pourquoi les uranistes 

 "affectentle metier de tailleur pour dames, ils y remportent de nombreux 

 " succes dus a leur voix de fausset et a la grace avec laquelle ils executent les 

 " mouvements feminins." 



Doctor Dallemagne finds this explanation far-fetched. The making of 

 breeches he says jocosely, would be more intelligible. Is he ignorant (that 

 seems impossible) of the passion of many effeminate persons for the feminine 

 toilette? The tailors for women probably imagine themselves wearing their 

 own creations and turning the heads of all the males. 



On page 507 Doctor Dallemagne, who treats the inverts as if they were 

 savages newly imported and never before seen in Europe and who cites the very 

 interesting, sober and estimable work of Moll as he would cite an explorer, says 



"Vous savez que la denomination d'uraniste contient i la fois I'agent actifet 

 " I'agent passif. Mais, en realite, le veritable uraniste est I'actif : le passif est 

 " rarement un inverti et dans ce dernier cas il intervient par complaisance 

 " plutot que par vocation, a charge de revanche si vous voulez. Le passif est 

 " par fois un mercenaire, mais cette circonstance constitue, parait-il, une reele 

 "exception." 



I think that those who read these fine-spun phrases from a weighty volume 

 of 658 pages will pardon in me some expressions approaching conceit. If men 

 of science collect details so erroneous, if they are so ignorant of what every 

 psychologist might know, of what classical antiquity already knew so well, my 

 criticisms and self assertion will be pardoned. It is inconceivable that any 

 one has read the principal works upon inversion and is ignorant of the passion 

 of many uranists for passivity, a passion which impels them to the acts so often 

 expressed in Latin. 



NOTE 3. 



The literary citations of the writers upon inversion have so little variety 

 that the reader will perhaps allow me to present the following sonnet. I find it 

 in the journarof Henry III by Pierre de I'Etoile and it forms a part of a col- 

 lection of poems and satirical works published against the king and his favor- 

 ites in 1577, 1578 and 1579. 



