[211] Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualitaet, ch. v.

[212] Krafft-Ebing tells of an inverted physician (a man of masculine development and tastes) who had had sexual relations with 600 more or less inverted men.  He observed no tendency to sexual malformation among them, but very frequently an approximation to a feminine form of body, as well as insufficient hair, delicate complexion, and high voice.  Well-developed breasts were not rare, and some 10 per cent, showed a taste for feminine occupations.

[213] A similar condition of gynecomasty has been observed in connection with inversion by Moll, Laurent, Wey, etc.  Olano ("La Secrecion Mamaria en los Invertidos Sexuales,” Archivos de Criminologia, May, 1902, p. 305) further observed a certain amount of mammary secretion in an inverted man, 20 years of age, in Lima.

[214] Hirschfeld finds. 7 per cent, inverts left-handed, and 6 per cent, partly so.  Fliess attaches special importance to left-handedness in inversion, believing that in left-handed men feminine secondary sexual characters are marked, and in left-handed women masculine sexual character (Der Ablauf des Lebens, 1906).  I am not prepared to deny this statement, but, more evidence is needed.

[215] This point has been discussed by Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualitaet, pp. 156-8.

[216] Bloch (The Sexual Life of Our Time, p. 500) attaches importance to this peculiarity, but it must be remembered that a high-pitched voice occurs frequently in undoubtedly heterosexual men in whom it seems often associated with high intellectual ability (Havelock Ellis, A Study of British Genius, p. 200).

[217] See, e.g., Hirschfeld, Die Homosexualitaet, p. 151.

[218] On the general signs of these conditions, see, e.g., H. Meige, “L’Infantilisme, Le Feminisme et les Hermaphrodites Antiques,” L’Anthropologie. 1895; also Hastings Gilford, “Infantilism,” Lancet, February 28 and March 7, 1914.

[219] Merzbach has dealt with the tendency of inverts to adopt special professions:  “Homosexualitaet und Beruf,” Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. iv, 1902.

[220] Moll’s experience in Germany also reveals the prevalence of inversion among literary men, though, of all occupations, he found the highest proportion among actors.  Jaeger has referred to the frequency of homosexuality among barbers.  I have been told that among London hairdressers homosexuality is so prevalent that there is even a special attitude which the client may adopt in the chair to make known that he is an invert.  Dr. Kiernan informs me that in Chicago, also, inversion is specially prevalent among barbers, and he adds that he is acquainted with two cases among women-barbers, a relatively large proportion.  It is not difficult to understand this, bearing in mind the close physical association between the barber