Sentence examples for sexual inversion from inspiring English sources

It was not until the late 19th century that a connection was made between male beauty, death and torture and sexual inversion.

Time Out magazine, in an otherwise positive review, charged that the film's "determined sexual inversion (whereby most women become freakish 'characters', and men loose-limbed sex objects) comes to look disconcertingly like a misogynist binge".

Those campy asides -- and the rakish sexual voracity of Samantha, who lives in the meatpacking district and is incensed to find a Pottery Barn defiling the neighborhood leather bars and sex shops -- hint at the show's sexual inversion.

Not until the nineteenth century did doctors and lawmakers commonly acknowledge a fixed category called sexual "inversion," and not until the twentieth century did the United States see "widespread discrimination against a class of people on the basis of their homosexual status".

Havelock Ellis, in the 1906 edition of his book "Sexual Inversion," noted that the Wilde trials "generally contributed to give definiteness and self-consciousness to the manifestations of homosexuality," and quoted a correspondent saying that Wilde's sufferings made him feel "ready to strike a blow, when the time comes, for what we deem to be right, honorable, and clean".

According to Mr. Spring's book, Steward came to understand himself only when he was a teenager and found a copy of Havelock Ellis's "Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume II: Sexual Inversion," which had been pinched from the restricted section of an Ohio library.

Vaudeville thrived on racial caricatures, satires of respectability and sexual inversions.

More often than not, applying a gender inversion heuristic to sexual orientation judgments promotes accuracy.

This finding is consistent with other research demonstrating that perceivers use a heuristic of gender inversion for making sexual orientation categorizations [22], [34].

Inversion in living organisms, sexual reproduction etc. are some of the examples for the term mutation.

Sexual orientation judgments tend to exploit a heuristic of gender inversion that often promotes accuracy.