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Sexual Inversion

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Prevalence of Homosexuality—Among Animals—Among the Lower Human Races—The Albanians—The Greeks—The Eskimo The Tribes of the North-West United States—Homosexuality among Soldiers in Europe—Indifference frequently Manifested by European Lower Classes—Sexual Inversion at Rome—Homosexuality in Prisons—Among Men of Exceptional Intellect and Moral Leaders—Murat—Michelangelo—Winckelmann—Homosexuality in English History—Walt Whitman—Verlaine—Burton’s Climatic Theory of Homosexuality The Racial Factor.

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Crozier, I. (2008). Introduction. In: Crozier, I. (eds) Sexual Inversion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230592261_2

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