ABSTRACT
from the time when Krafft-Ebing drew widespread attention to the problems of homosexuality, the matter has been seen to have increasing significance. At first believed to be a clear-cut relatively rare condition, it was described by Magnus Hirschfeld in a way and a context which made it seem a bizarre anomaly. But as psychiatry has come to see more understandingly into its patients, and as newer viewpoints have been clinically applied, we have come to recognize that far from being any unitary or isolated phenomenon homosexuality is an extremely complicated problem of widely varying manifestations. The purpose of this paper will be to call attention to the manifold aspects of homosexuality and to emphasize the importance of developing a broad concept of the phenomenon if we are to understand the protean clinical material which everywhere presents itself.
