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On Sigmund Freud's "Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality"

New Books in Psychoanalysis

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Sexology and the Sexual Sciences

The patriarchal family, heterosexual family, does become an important normative ideal in this context. Doctors and researchers were curious as to how these non-normative sexualities and genders developed. As they began to study sexuality and gender, sexology and the sexual sciences took root. You see the sexual science that became so prominent in the second half of the 19th century,. itself tried to make sense of this growing multiplicity, complexity, to categorize it... Just what's the seed of truth behind the prostitute, behind the homosexual? How can we pin that down?

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