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("Psychical Treatment of Congenital Sexual Inversion," _Review of Insanity
and Nervous Diseases_, June, 1894) reports the case of a thoroughly
inverted girl who married the brother of the friend to whom she was
previously attached merely in order to secure his sister's companionship.
She was able to endure and even enjoy intercourse by imagining that her
husband, who resembled his sister, was another sister. Liking and esteem
for the husband gradually increased and after the sister died a child was
born who much resembled her; "the wife's esteem passed through love of the
sister to intense natural love of the daughter, as resembling the sister;
through this to normal love of the husband as the father and brother." The
final result may have been satisfactory, but this train of circumstances
could not have been calculated beforehand. Moll is also opposed, on the
whole (e.g., _Deutsche medicinische Presse_, No. 6, 1902), to marriage and
procreation by inverts.

[259] Hirschfeld, _Die Homosexualitaet_, ch. xxi. It might seem on
theoretical grounds that the marriage of a homosexual man with a
homosexual woman might turn out well. Hirschfeld, however, states that he
knows of 14 such marriages, and the theoretical expectation has not been
justified; 3 of the cases speedily terminated in divorce, 4 of the couples
lived separately, and all but 2 of the remaining couples regretted the
step they had taken. I may add that in such a case even the expectation of
happiness scarcely seems reasonable, since neither of the parties can feel
a true mating impulse toward the other.

[260] Hirschfeld also notes (_Die Homosexualitaet_, p. 95) that women often
instinctively feel that there is something wrong in the love of their
inverted husbands who may perhaps succeed in copulating, but betray their
deepest feelings by a repugnance to touch the sexual parts with the hand.
The homosexual woman, also, as Hirschfeld elsewhere points out with cases
in illustration (p. 84), may suffer seriously through being subjected to
normal sexual relationships.

[261] Fere reports the case of an invert of great intellectual ability who
had never had any sexual relationships, and was not averse from a chaste
life; he was urged by his doctor to acquire the power of normal
intercourse and to marry, on the ground that his perversion was merely a
perversion of the imagination. He did so, and, though he married a
perfectly strong and healthy woman, and was him