Meaning of sexual inversion | Babel Free

Definitions

Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits.

dated, uncountable

Examples

“Congenital sexual inversion—that is to say, sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex—is a comparatively rare phenomenon, so far as our knowledge at present extends.”

“The average homosexual […] [is] a young person from an upper-middle-class family who is deeply troubled by sexual inversion and painfully eager to feel acceptance within home and community.”

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