Similisexuals
in Distinctively
Aesthetic Pro-
fessions and
Environments:
Painting, Sculp-
ture, Music, etc.
As has been said here, the Uranian meets us in no other career and life so plainly and so often as in the directly æsthetic atmosphere. He turns toward the even more spontaneously and successfully than to letters; for literature requires a far firmer Intellectuality than is demanded in painting, sculpture or music. Indeed, the Intersexual, though a long way from being (in the scornful phrase of the of the philistine) "good for nothing else" except art, seems often to us not as "good for anything else. He is aesthetically receptive, because of his natural predilection for what is concretely beautiful. He is productive in them because the finer uranian nature inclines to produce and to diffuse, even subsconsciously, what is beautiful. Again, in creating out of marble or on canvas the beauty of the male physique, the uranian utters his sexual creed. Generally he cannot publish it to the world any more plainly, and not more sympathetically. He turns to his chisel, to his palette, to his score, to his pianoforte, as a refuge. His physique is often adapted to only such a life. The relative unintellectuality and emotionality of several of the arts are consonant with his type, be what inspires him valuable or trivial, a jewel or paste.
Aesthetic Ca-
reers and Envi-
ronments as a Re-
fuge for Uranians.
Fortunate is that æsthetic homosexual who can really live a life of art, professionally and completely. A thousand traits
press, to include several recent allusions of value. For a single English instance a special word is due to Mr. Edward Carpenter's new little volume "The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women" (London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.; Manchester, S. Clarke, & Co.) The essayistic and anthologie work of the distinguished English social philosopher named mark him as a pioneer in the path of British enlightenment on philarrhenic questions. "The Intermediate Sex" is a study that all thoughtful Anglo-Saxons should take pains to read.
— 388 —
