Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXto control and limit its manifestations. Hirschfeld considersthe number of male prostitutesin Berlin to be abouttwenty thousand; more recently and more cautiouslyWerner Picton estimates it as six thousand. More thanone third are judged to be psychopathic, less than a quarterof them to be homosexual themselves. Unemploymentis a commonly assigned cause, as of female prostitution,but probably various other elements enter into the causation.Although sexual inversion is thus so important a phenomenonit is only in recent times that it has receivedscientific study, or even recognition. This first took placein Germany, At the end of the eighteenth century twocases were publishedin Germany of men showing a typicalemotional sexual attraction towards their own sex. Butalthough Hossli, Caspar, and especially Ulrichs (who inventedfor it the term "uranism") further prepared theway, it was not until 1870 that Westphal published a detailedhistory of an inverted young woman, and clearlyshowed that the case was congenital and not acquired, sothat it could not be termed a vice, and was also, thoughneurotic elements were present, not a case of insanity.From that moment the scientific knowledge of sexual inversionrapidlyincreased. Krafft-Ebing, who was the firstgreat clinician of sexual inversion, brought together alarge number of cases in his Psychopathia Sexualis, whichwas the earliest scientific book dealing with abnormal sexualityto attract general attention. Moll, with a more criticalmind than was Krafft-Ebing's, and a wider scientificculture, followed with an admirable treatise on sexualinversion. Then Magnus Hirschfeld, with an unrivaledand most sympathetic personal knowledge of inverts,greatly contributed to our knowledge, and his book, DerHomosexualitat (1914), not yet translated into English.