''Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes'' is a classic 1914 book on

homosexuality Homosexuality is romantic attraction, sexual attraction, or Human sexual activity, sexual behavior between people of the same sex or gender. As a sexual orientation, homosexuality is "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexu ...

in men and women that was written by

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sexologist Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions. The term ''sexology'' does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as social criticism. Sexologists app ...

Magnus Hirschfeld Magnus Hirschfeld (14 May 1868 – 14 May 1935) was a German physician, Sexology, sexologist and LGBTQ advocate, whose German citizenship was later revoked by the Nazi government.David A. Gerstner, ''Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer ...

. A second edition was published in 1920. Hirschfeld was himself gay and an occasional

crossdresser Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender. From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and express onesel ...

, known by other

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crossdressers as "Aunt Magnesia".Gherovici, P. (2011). Psychoanalysis Needs a Sex Change. Gay and Lesbian Issues and Psychology Review, 7(1), 3–18. https://criticaltheoryworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gherovici_psychoanalysis_needs_a_sex_change-1.pdf "The term transvestite was coined by Magnus Hirschfeld in 1910 to describe those who occasionally wear clothes of the ‘other’ sex. Hirschfeld, a passionate sex reformer and an activist, struggled for the legalisation of homosexuality. He was also an occasional cross-dresser himself and a central political figure in Germany’s incipient field of sexology. Hirschfeld developed a theory of sexual intermediaries, contending that the existence of two opposite sexes was an oversimplification and that one could observe many varieties of intermediates. A pioneer advocate for transgender people, he argued that transgenderism could not be reduced either to homosexuality, fetishism, or to any form of pathology." The book was part of the series ''Handbuch der Gesamten Sexualwissenschaft in Einzeldarstellungen'' and was the third volume of this series. ''Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes'' was not translated until 2000, under the title ''The Homosexuality of Men and Women'' by Michael Lombardi-Nash. It has been said that the book was the most significant and authoritative text on homosexuality of its time. The book has often been overlooked in the English-speaking academia.

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