Homosexuality - The Body
	Theoretically and practically, Institute colleagues held the view that each mental characteristic expressed itself physically. This, they claimed, applied to homosexual men and women too. Not only were the sexual desires of homosexual men - like those of heterosexual women - oriented towards men, their bodies, too, resembled female bodies. Dr. Arthur Weil, who emigrated to the USA in 1923, was of the same opinion. He compared the body measurements of some male homosexual visitors to the Institute with those of heterosexual men: in homosexual men, the pelvis - in relation to their shoulders - was allegedly wider than in heterosexual men  4 . The relationship between upper and lower body revealed the same propensity towards a more "female" body structure  1    2   3 . further picture examples:  5 6 7    next text >