In those countries—e.g. France and Italy—where inversion is permitted, and the law intervenes only to protect the young (with a protected age for boys, as for girls), to preserve public decency (barring resort to the street or open spaces), and to punish rape, there has been no surge in inverted practices, no spreading moral infection. Give abnormal love the same chance as normal love, subject it to the wholesome control of public opinion, allow it to be self-respecting, draw it from dark slums into the light of day, strike off its chains and set it free—and I am confident that it will exhibit
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