ABSTRACT
to avoid all misunderstanding, the question as to what I mean by homosexuality must be clear at the start. Homosexuality, or ‘self-sexedness,’ is a definite form from which springs certain feeling which in turn translates itself into certain acts, mostly not those ordinarily imagined. As in sex generally: first, the form (artung); second, feeling and inclination; third, action. An act which does not correspond to sensation produces no new form, and retroactively no new sensation. In fact, among the many thousands of homosexual men and women I have learned to know, I have never heard one seriously say that he held another responsible for his homosexual proclivities (it may then have been his progenitors).
