Kurella, Bloch, and others believe that the woman movement has helped to develop homosexuality (see, e.g., I. Bloch, Beitraege zur AEtiologie der Psychopathia Sexualis, 1902, vol. i, p. 248).  Various “feminine Strindbergs of the woman movement,” as they have been termed, displayed marked hostility to men.  Anna Rueling claims that many leaders of the movement, from the outset until today, have been inverted.  Hirschfeld, however (Die Homosexualitaet, p. 500), after giving special attention to the matter, concludes that, alike among English suffragettes and in the German Verein fuer Frauenstimmrecht, the percentage of inverts is less than 10 per cent.

FOOTNOTES: 

[137] Catharina Margaretha Lincken, who married another woman, somewhat after the manner of the Hungarian Countess Sarolta Vay (i.e., with the aid of an artificial male organ), was condemned to death for sodomy, and executed in 1721 at the age of 27 (F.C.  Mueller, “Ein weiterer Fall von contraerer Sexualempfindung,” Friedrich’s Blaetter fuer Gerichtliche Medizin, Heft 4, 1891).  The most fully investigated case of sexual inversion in a woman in modern times is that of Countess Sarolta Vay (Friedrich’s Blaetter, Heft, 1, 1891; also Krafft-Ebing, Psychopathia Sexualis, Eng. trans. of 10th. ed., 416-427; also summarized in Appendix E of earlier editions of the present Study).  Sarolta always dressed as a man, and went through a pseudo-marriage with a girl who was ignorant of the real sex of her “husband.”  She was acquitted and allowed to return home and continue dressing as a man.

[138] Anna Rueling has some remarks on this point, Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. vii, 1905, p. 141 et seq.

[139] This, of course, by no means necessarily indicates the existence of sexual inversion, any more than the presence of feminine traits in distinguished men.  I have elsewhere pointed out (e.g., Man and Woman, 5th ed., 1915, p. 488) that genius in either sex frequently involves the coexistence of masculine, feminine, and infantile traits.

[140] Various references to Queen Hatschepsu are given by Hirschfeld (Die Homosexualitaet, p. 739).  Hirschfeld’s not severely critical list of distinguished homosexual persons includes 18 women.  It would not be difficult to add others.

[141] Sophie Hochstetter, in a study of Queen Christina in the Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen (vol. ix, 1908, p. 168 et seq.), regards her as bisexual, while H.J.  Schouten (Monatsschrift fuer Kriminalanthropologie, 1912, Heft 6) concludes that she was homosexual, and believes that it was Monaldeschi’s knowledge on this point which led her to instigate his murder.

[142] Cf.  Hans Freimark, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky; Levetzow, “Louise Michel,” Jahrbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen, vol. vii, 1905, p. 307 et seq.