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bility of ever becoming integrally male—his terrible, instinctive demand for a psychic and a physical union with a man—not with a woman".

"Presently, during that same winter, accident opened my eyes wider to myself. From then, I have needed no further knowledge from the Tree of my Good and Evil. I met with a mass of serious studies, German, Italian, French, English, from the chief European specialists and theorists on the similisexual topic: many of them with quite other views than those of my well-meaning but far too conclusive Yankee doctor. I learned of the much-discussed theories of "secondary sexes" and "intersexes". I learned of the theories and facts of homosexualism, of the Uranian Love, of the Uranian Race, of "the Sex within a Sex". I could, at last, inform myself fully of its mystery, and of the logical, inevitable and necessary place in sexualism, of the similisexual man, and of the similisexual woman".

"I came to know their enormous distribution