scholarly journals (Yet) Another History of Sexual Science

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zsolt Bojti
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Science ◽  
History Of

Private Acts/Public Policy: Alfred Kinsey, the American Law Institute and the Privatization of American Sexual Morality

1996 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 405-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Allyn
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Sexual Revolution ◽  
Sexual Morality ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
American Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way ◽  
Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey has long been recognized for his crucial role in the history of American sexual science. Kinsey's massive studies of American sexual behavior changed the way social scientists studied sexuality by breaking from the accepted social hygienic, psychoanalytic, psychiatric and physiological approaches. Scholars have noted that Kinsey's efforts paved the way for the work of Masters and Johnson and contributed to a postwar climate of “openness” about sexual behavior. In effect, Kinsey's studies signaled the final triumph of scientific candor over the nineteenth century “conspiracy of silence.” Furthermore, Kinsey's quantitative approach advanced what Paul Robinson has called the “modernization of sex,” and Kinsey's discussion of homosexuality inspired both the homophile movement of the 1950's and the anti-homosexual moral panic of the same decade. Yet for all of Kinsey's significance, his part in shaping the social policies of the 1950's and the “sexual revolution” of the 1960's has received surprisingly little historical analysis.

scholarly journals Visual Histories of Sex

2022 ◽  
Vol 2022 (142) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Heike Bauer ◽  
Melina Pappademos ◽  
Katie Sutton ◽  
Jennifer Tucker
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Desire ◽  
Visual Studies ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
Sex And Sexuality ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
Digitized Images

Abstract Increased access to visual archives and the proliferation of digitized images related to sexuality have led a growing number of scholars in recent years to place images and visual practices at the center of critical historical inquiries of sexual desire, subjectivity, and embodiment. At the same time, new critical histories of sexual science serve both to expand the temporal and geographical frames for investigating the historical relationships of sex and visual production, and to generate new lines of inquiry and reshape visual studies more broadly. The contributors to this issue invite us to ask: What new questions and challenges for the study of sex and sexual science are posed by critical studies of the visual? How are new visual methodologies that focus on archives changing the contours of historical knowledge about sex and sexuality? What—and where—are new methodologies still needed? “Visual Archives of Sex” aims to illuminate current research that centers visual media in the history of sexuality and that interrogates contemporary historiographies.

Global Modernity and Sexual Science

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Ben
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Sexual Drive ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Parts

This chapter examines how the social history of urbanization influenced the emergence of sexual science by focusing on the case of male homosexuality and female prostitution during the period 1850–1950. It first considers the notions of sexual chaos and order that emerged within nineteenth-century anthropology and how they were related to urbanization, with an emphasis on the case of Buenos Aires. It then discusses some aspects of the global history of transportation and urbanization and how it affected prostitution and homosexuality in different parts of the world. It also explores the simultaneous emergence and similarity of the so-called cities of sin and how they became incubators of a sexual science in which the evolution or devolution of human society was debated in sexual terms and described as a fact of daily life. The chapter suggests that “civilization encourages prostitution” as the sexual drive is increasingly put under control.

Vita Sexualis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph M. Leck
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Sexual Science ◽  
History Of

Karl Ulrichs' studies of sexual diversity galvanized the burgeoning field of sexual science in the nineteenth century. But in the years since, his groundbreaking activism has overshadowed his scholarly achievements. Ulrichs publicly defied Prussian law to agitate for gay equality and marriage, and founded the world's first organization dedicated to the legal and social emancipation of homosexuals. This book returns Ulrichs to his place as the inventor of the science of sexual heterogeneity. The book's analysis situates sexual science in a context that includes politics, aesthetics, the languages of science, and the ethics of gender. Although he was the greatest nineteenth-century scholar of sexual heterogeneity, Ulrichs retained certain traditional conjectures about gender. This book recognizes these subtleties and employs the analytical concepts of modernist vita sexualis and traditional psychopathia sexualis to articulate philosophical and cultural differences among sexologists. This book uses a bedrock figure's scientific and political innovations to open new insights into the history of sexual science, legal systems, and Western amatory codes.

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