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- Title
"Are We to Treat Human Nature as the Early Victorian Lady Treated Telegrams?": British and German Sexual Science, Investigations of Nature, and the Fight against Censorship, ca. 1890–1940.
- Authors
Fisher, Kate; Funke, Jana
- Abstract
This article examines the relationship between sexology, censorship, and the regulation of sexual knowledge in early twentieth-century Britain and Germany. It argues that while censorship posed a threat to the dissemination of sexological knowledge, many sex researchers actually supported the careful regulation of sexual knowledge. They believed that scientific understanding of human sexuality was important and should guide sexual life. The article also discusses how appeals to nature were used to justify the dissemination of sexual scientific ideas and counter arguments against such knowledge. The understanding of the sexual instinct as changeable and open to influence shaped sex researchers' views on censorship and the emergence of sexology as a field. The article concludes by highlighting the complexities and contradictions surrounding censorship and the dissemination of sexual scientific knowledge.
- Subjects
HUMAN behavior; HOMOSEXUALITY; WOMEN'S sexual behavior; CENSORSHIP; HISTORY of psychology; SEXUAL psychology; OBSCENITY (Law)
- Publication
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2024, Vol 33, Issue 1, p79
- ISSN
1043-4070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/jhs33105