How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.
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- Publication/creation
- London : George Routledge, 1932.
- Physical description
- xiv, 374 pages ; 22 cm
- Contributors
- Wolfe, W. Béran 1900-1935.
- Notes
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This edition was reprinted in 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946 and 1948.
Copy 1 Note: 1937 reprint. X158203
- Attribution and usage
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significant artists and musicians have been homosexuals.
An equally great number of historical characters have
suffered from epilepsy and syphilis, but this is no
argument for having epilepsy or syphilis. If homo¬
sexuality were only a congenital anomaly, there would
presumably be a number of homosexuals who would be
normal in every other worldly activity, much as deaf-
mutes are normal in every other function. But this is by
no means the case. Scratch the surface of a homosexual
personality and you will find the anti-social characteristics
of that personality in every expression and in every
activity.
Why Homosexuality Can be Cured
Fear of intimate contact with the opposite sex is the
fundamental cornerstone in the life of every homosexual.
Granted this fear, conditioned in childhood by a variety
of factors in the environment, and not infrequently by
organic deficiencies which make the assumption of the
normal sexual r6le seem too difficult, then the rest of the
homosexual’s life and training are thoroughly justified
and indeed, quite logical and rational. The prevailing
theory that homosexuality in men and women is due to
the persistence of sexual rudiments of the opposite sex
is disproved by the fact that in clinical practice a great
many homosexuals who are in every way perfectly normal
physically, still have the strongest homosexual disposition,
whereas other individuals with obvious defects in sexual
structure, and obvious stigmata of the opposite sex, are
perfectly normal in their sexual attitudes and feelings.
Further evidence that homosexuality is a neurosis and
not a sexual anomaly is to be found in the fact that male
homosexuals are frequently irresponsible, lazy, unreliable,
vain, egoistic, and thoroughly subjective, while female
homosexuals are commonly of a very effective type,
active in their work, thoroughly responsible and reliable
in their business relations.
This is accounted for by the fact that homosexuality
in a male represents a flight from the responsibilities of