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==History ==
The term ''urning'', its etymological predecessor, was first used by German sexologist and activist Karl Heinrich Ulrichs in a series of five booklets collected under the title ''Forschungen über das RäthselRätsel der mannmännlichen Liebe'' or ''The Riddle of Man–Manly Love''.<ref>[https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Riddle_of_man_manly_Love/KGCGAAAAIAAJ?hl=en ''The Riddle of "Man-Manly Love"'', Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, originally self-published in 1864, re-released by Prometheus Books in 1994.]</ref> Ulrichs developed his terminology before the first public use of the term homosexual. Later, another sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld would use Ulrichs work to create the terms ''urning'', a "male-bodied person with a female psyche" who is attracted to men, and ''urningin'' (or ''uranierin'', ''urnin'', and ''urnigin''), a "female-bodied person with a male psyche" who is attracted to women.<ref>[https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/institut/theorie-praxis/hirschfelds-theorie/ Blog post about the "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (1919-1933)" exhibit at the Magnus Hirschfeld Institute of Sexology (in German).]</ref>
John Addington Symonds was the first person to use the term "uranian" in the English language,<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_-Wa7SIsAQgAC ''Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians: Hopkins, Pater and Wilde'', Michael M. Kaylor, Masaryk University.]</ref> and its etymology through Ulrichs is credited to him. However, it has been argued that this usage of the word is unrelated to Ulrichs' coinage and was independently thought of among English speakers familiar with Plato's ''Symposium''.
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