"sexual inversion" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1901, Henry Havelock Ellis, Sexual Inversion (Studies in the Psychology of Sex), Philadelphia: F. A. Davies, page 1:",
          "text": "Congenital sexual inversion—that is to say, sexual instinct turned by inborn constitutional abnormality toward persons of the same sex—is a comparatively rare phenomenon, so far as our knowledge at present extends.",
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          "ref": "1978 October, Lois Spear, U.S. Catholic:",
          "text": "The average homosexual […] [is] a young person from an upper-middle-class family who is deeply troubled by sexual inversion and painfully eager to feel acceptance within home and community.",
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        "Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits."
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        "(dated) Homosexuality, as regarded by a theory of the late 19th and early 20th century that saw it as an inborn reversal of gender traits."
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