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Homosexual case studies populated late-century medical literature. In Krafft-Ebing's book Psychopathia Sexualis (1893), “Case 99,” a male, “never lost for an instant the feeling of being a woman.”[1] Case 106, identified as “Mrs. M,” “would run after pretty girls...for hours at a time.”[2] | Homosexual case studies populated late-century medical literature. In Krafft-Ebing's book Psychopathia Sexualis (1893), “Case 99,” a male, “never lost for an instant the feeling of being a woman.”[1] Case 106, identified as “Mrs. M,” “would run after pretty girls...for hours at a time.”[2] | ||
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The book, Sexual Inversion, by influential British sexologist Havelock Ellis also contained in-depth case histories. In 1897 it featured a letter by “Professor X.” Circumstantial, but very convincing evidence has identified the letter writer as Harvard math professor, James Mills Peirce.[3] He wrote, “[W]e ought to think and speak of homosexual love, not as 'inverted' or 'abnormal'...but as being in itself a natural, pure and sound passion.”[4] | The book, Sexual Inversion, by influential British sexologist Havelock Ellis also contained in-depth case histories. In 1897 it featured a letter by “Professor X.” Circumstantial, but very convincing evidence has identified the letter writer as Harvard math professor, James Mills Peirce.[3] He wrote, “[W]e ought to think and speak of homosexual love, not as 'inverted' or 'abnormal'...but as being in itself a natural, pure and sound passion.”[4] | ||
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1. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study, authorized translation…by Charles Gilbert Chaddock (Philadelphia: The F.A. Davis Company, 1893), 211. | 1. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study, authorized translation…by Charles Gilbert Chaddock (Philadelphia: The F.A. Davis Company, 1893), 211. | ||
2. Ibid., 233. | 2. Ibid., 233. | ||
3. Hubert Kennedy, “The Case for James Mills Peirce” in his “Six Articles on James Mills Peirce” (Concord: Peremptory Publications ebook, 2003), 13, accessed October 19, 2012, http://hubertkennedy.angelfire.com/Peirce.pdf. | 3. Hubert Kennedy, “The Case for James Mills Peirce” in his “Six Articles on James Mills Peirce” (Concord: Peremptory Publications ebook, 2003), 13, accessed October 19, 2012, http://hubertkennedy.angelfire.com/Peirce.pdf. | ||
4. Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 376. | 4. Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 376. | ||
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(Title page of Mathematical Tables Chiefly to Four Figures by James Mills Peirce, 1896)
Under construction.
James Mills Peirce: “Professor X”
Homosexual case studies populated late-century medical literature. In Krafft-Ebing's book Psychopathia Sexualis (1893), “Case 99,” a male, “never lost for an instant the feeling of being a woman.”[1] Case 106, identified as “Mrs. M,” “would run after pretty girls...for hours at a time.”[2]
The book, Sexual Inversion, by influential British sexologist Havelock Ellis also contained in-depth case histories. In 1897 it featured a letter by “Professor X.” Circumstantial, but very convincing evidence has identified the letter writer as Harvard math professor, James Mills Peirce.[3] He wrote, “[W]e ought to think and speak of homosexual love, not as 'inverted' or 'abnormal'...but as being in itself a natural, pure and sound passion.”[4]
References
1. R. von Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, with Especial Reference to Contrary Sexual Instinct: A Medico-Legal Study, authorized translation…by Charles Gilbert Chaddock (Philadelphia: The F.A. Davis Company, 1893), 211. 2. Ibid., 233. 3. Hubert Kennedy, “The Case for James Mills Peirce” in his “Six Articles on James Mills Peirce” (Concord: Peremptory Publications ebook, 2003), 13, accessed October 19, 2012, http://hubertkennedy.angelfire.com/Peirce.pdf. 4. Jonathan Katz, Gay American History: Lesbians and Gay Men in the U.S.A. (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1976), 376.
