Note 43 — VI

The following statement of Hirschfeld’s illustrates this point (l.c., p. 315): “An urning, writer,—unus e multis—writes me: ‘The homosexual inclination developed in me in spite of the fact that the first sexual aggression was of a heterosexual character—a nursemaid seduced me—in spite of the fact that through training from childhood on I was taught to look at the female sex and my reading of literature showed me that woman was the object of love.’” I add: this tendency developed because the first sexual experience was associated with disgust on his part and because the domineering of woman led him to hate that sex.