The Homosexual Matrix the most novel account of the way in which behavioral expression communicates internal states since Charles Darwin's "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" (1872), but considered his most original contribution to be his explanation of how erotic feeling depends on "resistance", which might consist of any of several impediments to easy access to sexual satisfaction. Begelman called Tripp a skillful writer who was learned on the subject of homosexuality, but whose objectivity was nevertheless open to question. Karlen wrote that Tripp made numerous unjustified claims, such as that homosexual men tend to have a larger than average
The Man in the Moone la Lune" (1657); Cyrano's traveller actually meets Gonsales, who is still on the Moon, "degraded to the status of pet monkey". It was one of the inspirations for what has been called the first science fiction text in the Americas, "Syzygies and Lunar Quadratures Aligned to the Meridian of Mérida of the Yucatán by an Anctitone or Inhabitant of the Moon ..." by Manuel Antonio de Rivas (1775). The Laputan language of Jonathan Swift, who was a distant relation of Godwin's, may have been influenced by "The Man in the Moone", either directly or through Cyrano de Bergerac. "The Man