Homo-sexual Life

This provocative study traces homosexuality from biology to civilization, arguing that human sexuality develops in stages from autosexuality through homosexuality to heterosexuality, with bisexuality as the underlying human norm. Drawing on comparisons from lower life forms to childhood behavior, it presents same-sex feeling as a natural early phase that may persist when development is disrupted, and explores how heredity, environment, repression, and family dynamics shape sexual identity. The book challenges simplistic theories of masturbation and inversion, while examining narcissism, maternal fixation, the "male protest," and fear of women as forces that can distort desire and selfhood. It then widens into history and myth, surveying Ulrichs's classifications, Freud and Stekel's psychoanalytic ideas, and the religious, artistic, and social roles of bisexuality in the ancient world. From Plato, Sappho, and Greek sculpture to temple rites, cross-dressing deities, and boy-love in Sparta, Crete, Thebes, and Thera, the text presents same-sex love as both stigmatized and celebrated across cultures, ending with Rome's moral decline and widespread male prostitution. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.