  Studies in the psychology of sex, volume 2  I found in time
that several persons for whom I felt respect and admiration were
the congenital subjects of this abnormality. At the same time I
realized that public opinion combine to place a heavy penal
burden and a severe social stigma on the manifestations of an
instinct which to those persons who possess it frequently
appears natural and normal. It was clear, therefore, that the
matter was in special need of elucidation and There can be no
doubt that a peculiar amount of ignorance exists regarding the
subject of sexual inversion. I know medical men of many years'
general experience who have never, to their knowledge, come
across a single case. We may remember, indeed, that some fifteen
years ago the total number of cases recorded in scientific
literature scarcely equaled those of British race which I have
obtained, and that before my first cases were published not a
single British case, unconnected with the asylum or the prison,
had ever been recorded. Probab