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So the point of this thread as I recall was to see how long it would take to get to 100 pages. With it being close, my question is what happens then?

 

Here's my contribution of the moment:

 

 

 

 

 

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing[1] (August 14, 1840 – December 22, 1902) was an Austro-German sexologist and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), a famous series of case studies of sexual perversity. The book remains well known for his coinage of the terms sadism (from the Marquis de Sade) and masochism (from the name of writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose partly autobiographical novel Venus in Furs tells of the protagonist's desire to be whipped and enslaved by a beautiful woman).

 

Baron von Krafft-Ebing was born in Mannheim, Baden, Germany. He was educated in Heidelberg and studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg.

 

After Krafft-Ebing graduated in medicine and finished his specialization in psychiatry, he worked in several asylums, but he soon was disappointed by their workings and he decided to become an educator. He became a professor at Strasbourg, Graz, and Vienna, and a forensic expert at the Austro-Hungarian capital. He popularized psychiatry, giving public lectures on the subject and theatrical demonstrations of the power of hypnotism.

 

Krafft-Ebing wrote and published several articles on psychiatry, but his book Psychopathia Sexualis became his best-known work. Krafft-Ebing intended it as a forensic reference for doctors and judges and wrote in a high academic tone, noting in the introduction that he had "deliberately chosen a scientific term for the name of the book to discourage lay readers". He also wrote "sections of the book in Latin for the same purpose". Despite this, the book was highly popular with lay readers and was printed and translated many times.

 

It was one of the first books to study such sexual topics as the importance of clitoral orgasm and female sexual pleasure, consideration of the mental states of sexual offenders in judging their actions, and homosexuality. For decades it was an authority on sexual aberrance and arguably one of the most influential books on human sexuality before Freud's works. Krafft-Ebing was both praised for opening up a new area of much-needed psychological study and condemned for immorality and justifying perversion.

 

In the first edition of Psychopathia Sexualis, Krafft-Ebing divided "cerebral neuroses" into four categories:

 

paradoxia: Sexual desire at the wrong time of life, i.e. childhood or old age

anesthesia: Insufficient sexual desire

hyperesthesia: Excessive sexual desire

paraesthesia: Sexual desire for the wrong goal or object, including homosexuality ("contrary sexual desire"), sexual fetishism, sadism, masochism, pedophilia, etc.

Krafft-Ebing believed that the purpose of sexual desire was procreation, and that any form of desire that didn't go towards that ultimate goal was a perversion. Rape, for instance, was an aberrant act, but not a perversion, because pregnancy could result.

 

He saw women as basically sexually passive, and recorded no female sadists or fetishists in his case studies. Behaviour that would be classified as masochism in men was categorized in women as "sexual bondage", which, because it did not interfere with procreation, was not a perversion.

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