By Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949)
“Five sex research pioneers you’ve probably never heard of.“
Michael Barker’s “Kinsey-Sex And The Rockefeller Foundation (Part I of II)”.
“The Kinsey Revolution”, Parts 1 , 2, and 3. And the “Sex Wars” in early 20th-century USA, featuring Ida Craddock and Anthony Comstock.
A new site devoted to Havelock Ellis (funded by the British Academy).
Charlotte Wolff’s bio: “In the 1960s, after she started writing her first autobiography, homosexuality became her new field of research. In 1971 she published Love Between Women, a landmark study based on interviews with more than a hundred lesbians. She later wrote a book on bisexuality and a biography of Magnus Hirschfeld.”
Edward “Sellon is noteworthy as his his writings can be located as emerging out of the blurred zone between “serious scholarship” and erotica (sometimes referred to as “ethnopornography”). Sellon wrote both pornographic books and more sober, scholarly works, both of which provide a window into the period’s attitudes to India, sexuality, and Tantra.”
“In the 1920s and 30s, ex-pat Australian Norman Haire was a well known and colourful figure in London, with gynaecology rooms on Harley Street and a network of influential friends. His zeal for sex education, women’s rights and birth control contributed to the widespread social changes.”
Sexology in the Wellcome Library: “There is also a group of photographs of the World League for Sexual Reform (founded by Hirschfeld) Congress in Brno, 1932 among the archives of the Family Planning Association. Charlotte Wolff worked with Hirschfeld in her younger days in Berlin, and her papers among the archives of the British Psychological Society include her research files for her 1986 biography of him, the first to be published in English.”
“Anthropologist Dr. Judith Hanna is the country’s expert on strip clubs and exotic dance. A tremendous researcher, observer, and writer, she has served as an expert witness in over one hundred cases across the U.S. Naked Truth is a riveting combination of news stories, fascinating anecdote, articulate analysis, and lessons in our living Constitution.”
“The sex life of the Polish nation.”
