Editing Sexology (section)

===Victorian era to WWII===
[[File:Portrait of Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), Psychologist and Biologist (2575987702) crop.jpg|thumb|[[Havelock Ellis]], a pioneering figure in the movement towards sexual emancipation in the late 19th century]]

Despite the prevailing social attitude of sexual repression in [[Victorian morality|the Victorian era]], the movement towards sexual emancipation began towards the end of the nineteenth century in England and Germany. In 1886, [[Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing]] published ''[[Psychopathia Sexualis (Richard von Krafft-Ebing book)|Psychopathia Sexualis]].'' That work is considered as having established sexology as a scientific discipline.<ref name = Hoenig1977>Hoenig, J. (1977). Dramatis personae: Selected biographical sketches of 19th century pioneers in sexology. In J. Money and H. Musaph (Eds.), ''Handbook of Sexology,'' (pp. 21-43). Elsevier/North-Holland Biomedical Press.</ref>

In England, the founding father of sexology was the doctor and sexologist [[Havelock Ellis]] who challenged the [[sexual taboo]]s of his era regarding [[masturbation]] and [[homosexuality]] and revolutionized the conception of sex in his time. His seminal work was the 1897 ''Sexual Inversion'', which describes the sexual relations of homosexual males, including men with boys. Ellis wrote the first objective study of homosexuality (the term was coined by [[Karl-Maria Kertbeny]]), as he did not characterize it as a disease, immoral, or a crime. The work assumes that same-sex love transcended age [[taboo]]s as well as gender taboos. Seven of his twenty-one case studies are of inter-generational relationships. He also developed other important psychological concepts, such as [[autoerotism]] and [[narcissism]], both of which were later developed further by [[Sigmund Freud]].<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=The Language of Psycho-analysis|author1=Laplanche, J.|author2=Pontalis, J.B.|date=1988|publisher=Karnac Books|isbn=9780946439492|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DCpokE8C2WgC&pg=PA45|page=45|access-date=July 25, 2015}}</ref>

Ellis pioneered [[transgender]] phenomena alongside the German [[Magnus Hirschfeld]]. He established it as new category that was separate and distinct from homosexuality.<ref name=ttp>Ekins, Richard and King, Dave (2006) ''The transgender phenomenon'', SAGE, {{ISBN|0-7619-7163-7}}, pp. 61-64</ref> Aware of Hirschfeld's studies of [[transvestism]], but disagreeing with his terminology, in 1913 Ellis proposed the term ''sexo-aesthetic inversion'' to describe the phenomenon.<ref name=ellis1933>{{cite book|last=Ellis|first=Albert|title=Psychology of Sex|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NSLybrnLVeIC&pg=PA209YEAR|isbn=9781443735322|publisher=Read Books|date=2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5dNnT3GuF_gC&q=father+of+sexology+ellis|title=The Real Facts Of Life: Feminism And The Politics Of Sexuality C1850-1940|author=Jackson, Margaret|year=1994|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780203992395}}</ref>

In 1908, the first scholarly journal of the field, ''Journal of Sexology'' (''Zeitschrift für Sexualwissenschaft''), began publication and was published monthly for one year. Those issues contained articles by Freud, [[Alfred Adler]], and [[Wilhelm Stekel]].<ref name=Haeberle>Haeberle, E. J. (1983). ''The birth of sexology: A brief history in documents.'' World Association for Sexology.</ref> In 1913, the first academic association was founded: the ''Society for Sexology''.<ref>Kewenig, W. A. (1983). Foreword. In E. J. Haeberle, ''The birth of sexology: A brief history in documents''. World Association for Sexology. p. 3</ref>

Freud developed a theory of sexuality. These [[Psychosexual development|stages of development]] include: [[Oral stage|Oral]], [[Anal stage|Anal]], [[Phallic stage|Phallic]], [[Latency stage|Latency]] and [[Genital stage|Genital]]. These stages run from infancy to puberty and onwards.<ref name="gutenberg">{{cite book|url=https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14969 |title=Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex by Sigmund Freud - Free Ebook |publisher=gutenberg.org|access-date=July 25, 2015|date=2005-02-08 }}</ref> based on his studies of his clients, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries. [[Wilhelm Reich]] and [[Otto Gross]] were disciples of Freud, but rejected his theories{{vague|date=November 2013}} because of their emphasis on the role of sexuality in the revolutionary struggle for the emancipation of mankind.

[[Image:1933-may-10-berlin-book-burning.JPG|thumb|Hirschfeld's books were burned by the Nazis in Berlin for being "un-German".]]
Pre-Nazi Germany, under the sexually liberal [[Napoleonic code]], organized and resisted the anti-sexual, Victorian cultural influences. The momentum from those groups led them to coordinate sex research across traditional [[academic discipline]]s, bringing Germany to the leadership of sexology. Physician [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] was an outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, founding the [[Scientific Humanitarian Committee]], the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights.<ref>Goltz, Dustin (2008). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer movements. In A. Lind & S. Brzuzy (Eds.), ''Battleground: Women, gender, and sexuality, 2,'' 291. Greenwood Publishing Group, {{ISBN|978-0-313-34039-0}}</ref>

Hirschfeld also set up the first [[Institut für Sexualwissenschaft]] (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin in 1919.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Coleman |first1=Eli |last2=Ford |first2=Jessie V |title=A brief history of sexology and lessons learned |journal=[[The Journal of Sexual Medicine]] |date=2024 |volume=21 |issue=10 |pages=835–838 |doi=10.1093/jsxmed/qdae081|pmid=39350660 |pmc=11442977 |pmc-embargo-date=October 1, 2025 }}</ref> Its library housed over 20,000 volumes, 35,000 photographs, a large collection of art and other objects. People from around Europe visited the institute to gain a clearer understanding of their [[Human sexuality|sexuality]] and to be treated for their sexual concerns and dysfunctions.

Hirschfeld developed a system which identified numerous actual or hypothetical types of sexual intermediary between heterosexual male and female to represent the potential diversity of human sexuality, and is credited with identifying a group of people that today are referred to as [[transsexual]] or [[transgender]] as separate from the categories of homosexuality, he referred to these people as ''transvestiten'' (transvestites).<ref>{{Citation | last= Hirschfeld | first= Magnus | title= Die Transvestiten. Eine Untersuchung über den erotischen Verkleidungstrieb. Mit umfangreichen casuistischen und historischen | location= Leipzig | publisher= Verlag von Max Spohr (Ferd. Spohr) | year= 1910}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last= Hirschfeld | first= Magnus | title= Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes | location= Berlin | year= 1920}}</ref> Germany's dominance in sexual behavior research ended with the [[Nazi regime]].<ref name =Bullough1989/> The Institute and its library were destroyed by the Nazis less than three months after they took power, May 8, 1933.<ref name=Haeberle/> The institute was shut down and Hirschfeld's books were burned.

Other sexologists in the early [[gay rights movement]] included [[Ernst Burchard]] and [[Benedict Friedlaender]]. [[Ernst Gräfenberg]], after whom the [[G-spot]] is named, published the initial research developing the [[intrauterine device]] (IUD).