sexual inversion

English

Noun

sexual inversion (uncountable)

  1. (dated) Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits. [from 19th c.]
    • 1901, Henry Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion (Studies in the Psychology of Sex), Philadelphia: F. A. Davies, page 1:
      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.

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