Sexology and the Definition of “Normal” between 1860 and 1900
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TexteLangue : français Détails de publication : 2003.
Ressources en ligne : Abrégé : This paper paints a broad picture of the development of the field of sexology, summarizing many of the important contributions. It shows that the central concern of sexological writing was to establish the so-called normal sexual impulse, as well as to catalogue variance from this norm. Not all sexological texts were read in this way, however. Many “perverse” individuals read sexological texts in such a way as to reshape their own lives and their own practices, and utilised the rhetoric of science in an attempt to establish a new specification of “normal.” In this sense, the development of sexology redefined normal sexuality in two ways.
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This paper paints a broad picture of the development of the field of sexology, summarizing many of the important contributions. It shows that the central concern of sexological writing was to establish the so-called normal sexual impulse, as well as to catalogue variance from this norm. Not all sexological texts were read in this way, however. Many “perverse” individuals read sexological texts in such a way as to reshape their own lives and their own practices, and utilised the rhetoric of science in an attempt to establish a new specification of “normal.” In this sense, the development of sexology redefined normal sexuality in two ways.
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