Initially confined to medical texts, the concept of sexual inversion was given wide currency by Radclyffe Hall's 1928 lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness, which was written in part to popularize the sexologists' views.
The idea of sexual inversion was initially confined to medical texts, but its popularity grew significantly thanks to Radclyffe Hall's 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness, which aimed to spread the ideas of sexologists about this topic.