By H. Bauer
It's popular that a lot of our sleek vocabulary of intercourse emerged inside of nineteenth-century German sexology. yet how have been the 'German principles' translated and transmitted into English tradition? This research offers an exam of the formation of sexual conception among the 1860s and Nineteen Thirties and its migration throughout nationwide and disciplinary barriers.
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In the process, the terminologies of ‘inversion’ became increasingly subsumed into a range of more specific considerations of what we would now call transgender phenomena. Here questions of translation gained renewed currency as researchers interacted on an international platform and the methodologies of sexology embedded existing medico-forensic approaches into wider anthropological and sociological frameworks. The trained physician and homosexual rights activist Magnus Hirschfeld played a central role in the shaping of the new sexology.
51 However, this does not mean that Psychopathia Sexualis was only read in specialist male circles as novels such as Sind es Frauen? Roman über das dritte Geschlecht [Are these women? Novel about the third sex] (1901) make clear. Nevertheless, Krafft-Ebing’s comments reinforce that while women may have had a wider impact on sexual discourses they had little formal involvement in the early discipline formation of sexology. Psychopathia Sexualis and a shorter article on hypnotism were the only works in Krafft-Ebing’s extensive oeuvre to be translated into Disciplining Sex and Subject 35 English.
Ulrichs’ theoretical intervention was sustained. h. Horror vor geschlechtlicher Körperberührung mit Weibern [. ] Diese Individuen nenne ich ‘Urninge’. [The fact is that there are individuals who have a body of male build, but who feel sexual love towards men, sexual horror towards 26 English Literary Sexology women, that is horror of sexually touching the body of women [. 17 The misogynist tone of the passage is typical of Ulrichs’ dismissal of women, and specifically the female body. While Ulrichs partly conceptualised the ‘Urning’ in terms of a masculine male body, he also sought to dissociate sexuality from corporeality, arguing that sexual feeling, despite being a physical desire, does not manifest itself physically.