SOC 445 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Havelock Ellis, Gender Dysphoria, Object Sexuality
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M. hirschfeld - considered inversions as a 3rd sex. K. westphal - called inversion a contrary sexual (really referring to gender) feeling. Ulrich - referred to this phenomenon as uranism. H. ellis - eventually used the word inversion. With object choice, they would be defined as homosexual. With inversion, they are seen as an inversion. Frida was a normal female with feminine desires. Perversion = turning aside, diverted of the natural sex instinct. Procreation was considered the natural unitary instinct, anything outside of that was considered a perversion. You can find the presence of the social world in the social object. The characteristics of the social object is shaped by its environment. The different inversions are graded (seen as worse than others) Emergence (the recognition) of sexual types of people. Can be emergence of new sexual types from types that. Inversion = flipping of the normal relationship between sex category and gender.
