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sexual inversion

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Noun1.sexual inversion - a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex
inversion
gayness, homoeroticism, homosexualism, homosexuality, queerness - a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
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Ellis's work on sexual inversion was the subject of an obscenity trial.
"We live in a country where nothing makes any difference": the queer ... by Moddelmog, Debra A. / The Hemingway Review
Sometimes, indeed, the tendency to sexual inversion in eccentric and neurotic families seems merely to be Nature's merciful method of winding up a concern which, from her point of view, has ceased to be profitable.
Brief history of a recurring nightmare by Murphy, Timothy F. / The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Exposing domination and same-sex eroticism as the undeclared basis for heterosexuality and sexual normalization in both enslavement and in developing theories of sexual inversion, my paper moves into the analysis of a much overlooked scene in Jacobs's Incidents--one in which a male slave, Luke, undergoes an extended period of sexual abuse by his male master.
"The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in Antebellum ... by Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. / African American Review
 
 
 
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