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Die Konträre Sexualempfindung.
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Arch. f. Psych. u. Nervenkrankheiten, 2, 73-108. 1869 CE.
The first "scientific" paper on homosexuality. In this paper the psychiatrist Westphal described two cases at length: "The first was of a young woman who from her earliest years liked to dress as a boy and engage in boys' games and who found herself attracted only to women; the second was of a man who wanted to wear women's clothes and act the part of a woman. In attempting to give a diagnostic category to these cases Westphal coined the phrase Konträre Sexualempfindung, usually translated as 'contrary sexual feeling' " (Bullough, Science in the bedroom: A history of sex research [1994] 38).
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| Catalog Metadata | Reference Information |
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| Entry Number | #7076 |
| Permanent Link | https://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9243 |
| Author Bio Link | Wikipedia ↗ |
| External URL | die-kontrre-sexualempfindung |