Karl Ulrichs
"Memnon": Die Geschlechtsnatur des mannliebenden Urnings. Eine naturwissenschaftliche
Darstellung. Abtheilung II, Schleiz, 1868.
Section 2
Chapter 14: Distinguishing traits between Uranians and Uranized males, and conversely, between males and virilized Uranians. [pp. 61-63]
Inclusa § 79. Ara spei § 61. Above § 40.
§ 81. The origin of Uranism is innateness, that of Uranization
the shortage of women, habit, or self-compulsion.
This difference in origin is matched by a difference in manifestation.
1) Uranization is never a lasting psychological condition. The Uranized
male, or Uraniaster, is and remains a male. His male nature is only temporarily
pushed into the background. His male responsiveness to love for women never
ceases. He never feels the Uranian's horror of touching the female body
sexually. At every available opportunity, the love for women emerges in
him once again. Thus, for example, in the case put forth by Canler. This
is also what happened among the Uranized soldiers of the French Foreign
Legion, when they returned from the isolated desert camps to the city of
Algiers, where they had contact with women.
2) In the innate Uranian, you find the true passion of sexual love
toward a young man, whether it is an enthusiastic inner longing, or the
fiery glow of sensuality. What drives the Uranian is always true sexual
love. The young man is truly loved by him. The Uranian has a beloved.
In the Uraniaster you do not find any of this in relation to a young
man. He does not have a beloved, even if he calls him that. He cannot love
him. What drives him toward a young man is not the longing of love for
him, not the overpowering enchantment that seeing his face exerts on him.
Only a female being could attract him in this way, never a male. Only his
sexual need, which demands at least a temporary remedy for its gratification,
drives him toward him. What drives him is not the "tu", or any other entity
outside the "ego", but only the "ego." This is the exact opposite of the
Uranian, as of any person who loves. A being outside of him, the beautiful
boy, is what drives and excites the Uranian.
3) The Uraniaster therefore takes pleasure, without loving the one
by whom he takes his pleasure. His pleasure consists of nothing other than
gratification. His pleasure misses the inhalation of the magnetic emanation
that emerges from the body of the other partner, because only someone who
loves is capable of sensing this emanation. He misses the pleasure of the
soothing touch, the sensitivity to a beneficent living body.
4) The inhalation of that invisible force, that sensitivity to a beneficent
living body, reaches a climax in the Uranian when the male body parts of
the other partner are touched. These parts in particular produce the greatest
sensual thrill in him. (Formatrix §§9-16.) To the Uraniaster,
on the other hand, these parts are completely indifferent. They leave him
entirely cold. (See here in particular Formatrix § 16.)
In this sketch of the Uraniaster, the reader will probably find that
which he was accustomed to look for in the Uranian. That is how people
thought of him, even though he differs from the sketched image in its most
essential traits.
The distinguishing traits between the innate male and the virilized
Uranian are exactly the same in all four points, mutatis mutandi.
§ 82. It follows from the foregoing that:
For the question of whether an individual is a Uranian, it is immaterial
whether he takes pleasure in a Uranian or non-Uranian manner. On the other
hand, the following four points are critical:
1. Does he feel passionate longing for love in relation to male beings,
and only to them, whether of an enthusiastic-delicate, or fiery-sensual
kind?
2. Does he feel a horror of touching women sexually? [49]
3. Does he sense a soothing magnetic emanation when touching a blossoming
male body?
4. Does the thrill of the attraction find its climax in the male parts
of the latter?
Wherever you find these points, or even one of them, there you find
true sexual love and therefore nature -- genuine, innate nature. No self-conquest
[will-power], even for the sake of gold and emeralds, no habituation, no
shortage of women, can ever conjure up even a single one of these four
points.
(These points were also critical for me above in the classification
of individual Uranians, e.g. Martial, because while I certainly recognized
in him non-Uranian pleasure, I found in him the true longing of love only
in relation to boys.)
[49] This horror is not always to be found, so it appears. (See above § 35, 36.) But when it is present, it is defining.