“The concept of normal, especially in sexual life, is designated in an almost entirely arbitrary manner. Anyone familiar with the diversity of sexual life will concede this fact.”

—  Hans Blüher

Source: The German Wandervogel Movement as Erotic Phenomenon: A Contribution to the Knowledge of Sexual Inversion (1914), p. 38.

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