| 单词 | sexual invert |
| 释义 | > as lemmassexual invert 3. Chiefly Psychology and Psychoanalysis in early use. A person with sexual feelings or other psychological characteristics regarded as contrary to those considered normal or typical for their sex, or as characteristic of a person of the opposite sex; spec. a homosexual person, esp. a man. More fully sexual invert. Cf. inversion n. 10, inverted adj. 7. Now rare or historical (disused in technical contexts, and often considered offensive in general use).Late 19th- and early 20th-cent. descriptions and discussions of ‘the invert’ by psychologists frequently dealt with feelings and behaviour that would now be related to questions of gender identity rather than sexual orientation, but for much of the 20th cent. the word in this sense was often used—particularly by non-specialists—to refer to homosexual men and women.In quot. 1911 perhaps in weakened sense: an effete or effeminate man. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person urning1883 invert1892 homosexual1894 Uranist1895 homosexualist1898 Uranian1908 intersexualc1910 homoerotic1915 homo1923 one of those1927 freak1941 homophile1945 gay1953 consenting adult1957 minty1957 lesbigays1992 1892 H. Ellis Let. 1 July in S. Brady J. A. Symonds & Homosexuality (2012) 223 You speak (as I should.) of sex. [i.e. sexual] inverts as ‘abnormal natures’. 1892 J. A. Symonds Let. 29 Dec. in S. Brady J. A. Symonds & Homosexuality (2012) 237 I do not believe that legislation can affect the percentage of persons born inverts. 1897 H. Ellis & J. A. Symonds Sexual Inversion 12 Like many modern inverts he [sc. Julius Caesar] was accustomed carefully to shave his skin. 1911 R. W. Chambers Common Law i. 29 This world is full of pale, enraptured artists;..full of unwashed little inverts. 1937 Washington Post 3 Mar. 9/1 Hugh is not a sexual invert, although the pale and timid minister, Father Bonteen, quivers and weakens with love at the sight of [him]. 1966 J. R. Cavanagh (title) Counseling the Invert. 1973 Times 10 July 3/3 To lump all homosexuals together as perverts, degenerates, inverts, or other pseudo-scientific terms which were only a guise for disapproval, did not help. 1997 M. Gibson in V. A. Rosario Sci. & Homosexualities 123 Further evidence of the masculinity of the invert was found in the fact that only feminine men would ever be attracted to her. 2006 Kingston (Jamaica) Gleaner 4 June g 5/3 What excites the media and public is scandal and homosexuality. So what if only about three per cent of men are inverts? < as lemmas |
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