Now all kinds of possibilities of conflict emerge.  The child is still a bisexual, growing into a mixed sex type, depending upon the nature and amount of its internal secretions.  The influencing adult of the family, the most important of the external factors encouraging or depressing the tendencies of the child, possesses a fairly fixed ideal of monosexuality which he or she, generally quite unconsciously, seeks to impose upon it.  A doting feminine mother will make her son as much as possible like her husband:  if she dislikes her husband, as much as possible like her father or grandfather.  A masculinized mother will tend to make a sex object out of the son, however, which means his feminization.  But, on the internal secretion side, the boy may be definitely masculine.  That is, after adolescence he would be strongly masculine, if the vegetative-endocrine mechanisms created by the mother’s personality had not slipped into the inside track, so to speak.  As a consequence, continual subconscious conflict between the two sets of sex reaction will, sooner or later, disturb, perhaps disrupt and ruin his life.

So an infant may start life with a fairly balanced endocrine equipment, with its wake of a normal life (barring accidents and infections), and yet he may end as an inferior, insane, criminal, or failure directly because of establishment of conflict between himself as one sort of sex type, and his obligatory associates of another sort of mixed sex type.  This applies also to the mother-daughter, the father-son, and the father-daughter relationship.

Male and female created He them, is a bald misstatement of the facts.  Male and female emerge as final by-products of endocrine heredity, environmental treatment and adaptation.  Often the male-female, the female-male, persist anatomically, or are forced to persist functionally.  Society, constructed upon the Biblical dogmas of man as a fallen angel, and absolute sex, is responsible for much misery and suffering meted out to the functional hermaphrodite, as we shall see later in an analysis of the endocrine character of Oscar Wilde.  The privileges and powers of sex relationship, marriage and parenthood, should be safeguarded for the mixed sex type, the man or woman with the variable sex index.  For there are no tragedies in life more pitiful than those in which an aggressive masculinely built type is forced to assume a submissive, receptive, passive, feminine role and vice versa, the tragedy of compelled homosexuality, because of wrong associates.

MASOCHISM AND SADISM