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removal we see somewhat similar symptoms, 

 but not to such an extreme degree ; many a 

 woman whose ovaries have been removed, 

 though she cease to menstruate, is a very useful 

 member of society and leads a fairly happy life, 

 but in both sexes there is evidence of disturbance 

 of metabolism, for both are apt to get fat. 



I think we must conclude that sexual life in 

 women is not such a predominant fact as in men. 

 There is good reason for thinking that the active 

 hormone which influences the sexual character- 

 istics comes from the interstitial cells of the testis 

 and from the ovaries. 



We are most of us, I suppose, bisexual in a 

 measure. The masculine woman, masculine often 

 in build and appearance and often in mental 

 characteristic?, is a familiar figure. The womanly 

 man is also a well-recognized type. Homo- 

 sexuality is to most normal men and women an 

 impossible horror, and human law, in the interests 

 of society, cannot make fine distinctions, but must 

 look on it as criminality ; yet from the scientific 

 and anatomical point of view there is a small 

 amount of excuse. In the early differentiation 

 of sex there is sometimes a mix up of the essential 

 sex characteristics. When this occurs there may 

 well be temptations of which the normal man or 



