304 Quotes About Homosexuality

  • Author Jeffrey Eugenides
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    After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco . . .

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  • Author Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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    The majority of homosexuals are happy in their perverse sexual feeling and impulse, and unhappy only in so far as social and legal barriers stand in the way of the satisfaction of their instinct towards their own sex.

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  • Author Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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    In homosexuals morally perverse and potent, in regard to erections, the sexual desire is satisfied by pederasty—an act, however, which is repugnant to perverted individuals that are not defective morally, much in the same way as it is to normal men.

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  • Author Richard von Krafft-Ebing
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    CASE 146. Once summer's evening, at twilight, X.Y., a doctor of medicine in a North German city, was trodden on by a watchman as he (the doctor) was committing an immoral act with a tramp on a path in a field. He was practicing masturbation on him and thereupon putting the tramp's penis into his mouth.

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