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 But as there is no law punishing feminine intercourse, the court held that the members of the club were neither legally damaged, nor to be pursued criminally. Hence the ladies turned to their own way, rejoicing in their assured freedom—if not in any other outcome of their suit.

But if the Uraniad is not nearly so much a social or legal victim as the uranian, she can suffer a natural penalty for her intersexual existence. Uraniad appetites, and the feminosexual "type," are likely to be interlinked with morbidity of psychos, with undesirable physical conditions—negative or positive—and even with organic disease. The gratification of uraniad love reacts in many instances, by obviously mischievous influences, on the Uraniad's nervous system. The uranian passion in adults, or in robust, fairly healthful youth, is not nervously harmful, per se. On the contrary, it is largely salutary; particularly, if decent, tranquil, regular in expression and idealized by circumstances. The opposite effects frequently can result by feminosexualism. Too often, by it the feminine psychos goes to pieces. The Uraniad significantly helps to fill insane asylums and sanitariums.

In an Appendix to this study will occur a comment on aspects of the Uraniad when victim of her sexual-sentimental impulses; as contrasted with uranianism.

In geographical distribution, the essentially criminal classes of Uraniads, showing moral divagations by theft, by violent behaviour (even to murderous attacks) and by prostitution with women, are most common in the latin lands. There is, of course, a large army of the feminine intersex concentrated in Germany, in Austria-Hungary, in Great Britain, and about the Orient in general. But Italy, Spain and France, among European countries of uraniadism, specialize also her