Note 9 — I

I find a very interesting observation by Bloch, one which deserves to be widely circulated: “A final and not unimportant form of Pseudo-homosexuality is hermaphroditism (das Zwittertum). It is remarkable that science has concerned itself only in recent years with the close study of hermaphroditic conditions which have not received heretofore the attention warranted by their sociologic bearings and their frequency. It is a great merit of Neugebauer and of Magnus Hirschfeld that they have called general attention to these remarkable sexual Zwischenstufen, intermediary states, and have pointed out their great practical significance, a matter of which no one has thought before, as is shown by the significant fact that the new German civil code has done away with the legal proscriptions of the old Prussian law concerning the Zwitter (hermaphrodites), upon the contention that no person is of unknown or unascertainable sex.”