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It was my primary object when I began these autobiographical notes to describe as accurately and candidly as I was able a type of character, which I do not at all believe to be exceptional, but which for various intelligible reasons has never yet been properly analysed. I wanted to supply material for the ethical psychologist and the student of mental pathology, by portraying a man of no mean talents, of no abnormal depravity, whose life has been perplexed from first to last by passion—natural, instinctive, healthy in his own particular case—but morbid and abominable from the point of view of the society in which he lives—persistent passion for the male sex.
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Regis, A.K. (2016). Chapter 12: Emotional Development. In: Regis, A. (eds) The Memoirs of John Addington Symonds. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-29124-0_14
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