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1935 Letter from Sigmund Freud To A Mother of a Homosexual

4 August 2016

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Excerpt from Sigmund Freud’s 1935 letter "Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness; we consider it to be a variation of the sexual function"

A Letter from Freud to a mother of a homosexual - 1935 - 1

See facsimile of full letter by Freud here