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  • Krafft-Ebing's book was an early work from the new science of sexology, the study of human sexual behavior in all its variety.

    Victoria Rosner: A Walk on the Wilde Side 2008

  • "The sexual pervert (and by this term Dianetics, to be brief, includes any and all forms of deviation in dynamic two [sexuality and procreation] such as homosexuality, lesbianism, sexual sadism, etc., and all down the catalog of Ellis and Krafft-Ebing) is actually quite ill physically."

    OpEdNews - Diary: Scientology Cult Supports California Prop to Ban Same-Sex Marriage 2008

  • Much of the testimony in the trial seemed to be arbitrarily introduced from Krafft Ebing.153

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • Much of the testimony in the trial seemed to be arbitrarily introduced from Krafft Ebing.153

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • It all came from reading Papillon during my adolescence, right around the time that Krafft Ebing was putting its mark on me.

    Wake Up, Sir! Jonathan Ames 2004

  • The philosopher Renè Descartes, Krafft-Ebing noted, was partial to cross-eyed women.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • When Krafft-Ebing was writing Psychopathia Sexualis, people with unusual desires could live their entire lives without knowing that there was anyone else in the world like them.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • The grand old man of psychosexual pathology, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, catalogued an astonishing range of paraphilias in his Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), from necrophilia and bestiality to fetishes for aprons, handkerchiefs, and kid gloves.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • The grand old man of psychosexual pathology, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, catalogued an astonishing range of paraphilias in his Psychopathia Sexualis (1886), from necrophilia and bestiality to fetishes for aprons, handkerchiefs, and kid gloves.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

  • When Krafft-Ebing was writing Psychopathia Sexualis, people with unusual desires could live their entire lives without knowing that there was anyone else in the world like them.

    A New Way to Be Mad 2000

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