Monkey's Love, Homosexual, Internat (1908)

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THE SEXUAL QUESTION:
A SCIENTIFIC, PSYCHOLOGICAL, HYGIENIC AND SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY
by August Forel
English adaptation from the second German edition, reivsed and enlarged
by C. F. Marshall
New York: Rebman Company
(1908 is handwritten--ed.)

   I didn't see "word salad" here.
   Forel is ridiculously under-cited by the OED.  It's clear that no one has read him.


Pg. 136:
   _"Monkey's Love."_--Maternal love thus constitutes the most important irradiation of the sexual instincts in woman.  It very easily degenerates into weakness, that is to say into unreasonable passion and blind compliance with all the faults of the child, which the mother excuses and transforms into virtues.  The foibles of maternal love do much harm to the child and are often the origin of bitter decptions.  Heredity weakness of character here plays a great, or even the principal part.  Nevertheless, maternal foibles have other causes--riches, absence of culture, idleness, too few children, etc.
   The best antidote for this unreasonable maternal love, which the Germans call "monkey's love" consists in active occupations for the mother, combined with a healthy education of her character.
("Monkey's love" is not in the revised OED, which doesn't "monkey" around much--ed.)

Pg. 231:  The fifth class is constituted by the onanism of sexual inverts, and may be called _essential onanism_.  This concerns men whose sexual appetite is directed toward their own sex instead of the other.  They are called _homosexual_, and mutual onanism is, so to speak, the normal satisfaction of their inverted appetite.
(OED has "homosexual" from 1892, but see "B" of that definition, from 1912--ed.)

Pg. 242:
   A. _Homosexual love in man._  It seems absurd that the whole sexual appetite and amorous ideals of a man can be directed all his life to persons of his own sex.  This pathological phenomenon, however, is as common as it is certain, although its psychological and normal import has long been misapprehended, as much in judicial circles as by the general public.  It is the inverts themselves, aided by psychiatrists, who have finally thrown light on the subject.  An invert, named Ulrich, announced himself publicly under the name _Urnings_, a name which is still used in Germany.  Ulrich and his disciples endeavored to prove an absurdity by maintaining that homosexuals are a special kind of normal men, and by attempting to obtain legal sanction for this kind of love.  Ulrich gives the name _Dionings_ to men whose sexual appetite is normal, _i.e._, directed toward women.
(OED has "urning" but not "dioning"--ed.)

Pg. 338:
   _Internats._--All internats, _i.e._, all establishments where individuals of the same sex live in the same dwelling for a long time, exert a peculiar influence on sexual life--school and convents, for example.
(What ever happened to the word "internat"?--ed.)