1905 FOREL, Auguste Henri (1848 – 1931)
Die sexuelle Frage.
Forel’s best work; translated into 16 languages; 16th edition in 1931.
GMN 1635 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2015
1905 FREUD, Sigmund (1856 – 1939)
Drei Abhandlungen zur Sexualtheorie.
The work which Freud considered second in importance only to his Die Traumdeutung. Freud’s epochal theory of infantile sexuality linked the forces motivating the development of body and mind from earliest infancy. Inf…
GMN 4983 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6406
1906 BLOCH, Iwan (Ivan) (1872 – 1922)
Das Sexualleben unserer Zeit in seinen Beziehungen zur modernen Kultur.
An encyclopedia of the sexual sciences. English translation by M. Eden Paul from the sixth German edition as The sexual life of our time in its relations to modern civilization (1909). Digital facsimile of the 1907 Ge…
GMN 7199 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9366
1906 MAIMONIDES, (Moses ben Maimon; מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־מַימוֹן; Mōšeh bēn-Maymōn; موسى بن ميمون Mūsā bin Maymūn) (1135 – 1204); KRONER, Hermann (1870 – 1930)
Shenei Ma'amarei ha-Mishgal. Ehad 'al 'Inyanei ha-Mishgal we-ehad 'al Ribbuy ha-Misgal. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Medizin des XII. Jahrhunderts an der Hand zweier medizinischer Abhandlungen des Maimonides auf Grund von 6 unedierten Handschriften dargestellt und kritisch beleuchtet
GMN 13360 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15631
1908 NEUGEBAUER, Franz Ludwig [Franciszek Ludwik Neugebauer] (1856 – 1914)
Hermaphroditismus beim Menschen.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11687
1918 STOPES, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880 – 1958)
Married love. A new contribution to the solution of sex difficulties.
One of the first books to discuss the differences between male and female sexual desires, and the first book to note that increased sexual desire in women coincides with ovulation and the period right before menstruat…
GMN 7099 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9266
1919 FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959)
Prostitution in Europe. Introduction by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"Publications of the Bureau of Social Hygiene". Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11016 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13212
1923 MARCUSE, Max (1877 – 1963)
Handwörterbuch der Sexualwissenschaft. Enzyklopädie der natur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Sexualkunde des Menschen heraugegeben von Max Marcuse.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link. New edition with an introduction by Robert Jütte, Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2001.
GMN 12994 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15243
1926 VAN DE VELDE, Theodoor Hendrik (1873 – 1937)
Het volkomen huwelijk. Een studie omtrent zijn physiologie en zijn techniek: voor den arts en den echtgenoot geschreven.
English translation: Ideal Marriage: Its Physiology and Technique. (1930). The first printing had an insert: "The sale of this book is strictly limited to members of the medical profession, Psychoanalysts, Scholars, a…
GMN 7031 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9198
1926 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
Happiness in marriage.
Full text available from LifeDynamics.com at this link.
GMN 7105 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9272
1928 HOLLANDER, Eugen (1867 – 1932)
Äskulap und Venus. Eine Kultur- und Sittengeschichte im Spiegel des Ärztes.
An exhaustive and well-illustrated survey of medical anthropology with emphasis on sexuality.
GMN 194.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3478
1928 MEAD, Margaret (1901 – 1978)
Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation.
Mead based her study primarily on adolescent girls on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book detailed the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorized that culture ha…
GMN 10118 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12307
1930 MEYER, Johann Jakob (1870 – 1939)
Sexual life in ancient India: A study in the comparative history of Indian Culture.
Extensively revised by the author, with additional notes by the translator (unidentified), from Das Weib im altindischen Epos. Ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte. Von Johann Jacob Meyer.…
GMN 8322 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10498
1930 HIRSCHFELD, Magnus (1868 – 1935)
Sittengeschichte des Weltkrieges. 2 vols.
Sexuality in World War I. Abridged translation into English Sexual History of the World War (New York, Panurge Press, 1934). Only a small sampling of the plates from the German edition were issued as Illustrated Suppl…
GMN 10847 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13043
1931 ELVENES, Lili Ilse (Lili Elbe) (1882 – 1931)
Fra Mand til Kvinde: Lili Elbes Bekendelser.
Posthumously published autobiography of one of the first transgender women, known prior to the sex change as the Danish painter Einar Wegener. Translated into English as Man into woman: An authentic record of a change…
GMN 11447 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13646
1931 MERLET, Janine
Vénus et Mercure.
"Chapter by Pierre Najac, “L’Institut de science sexuelle à Berlin”; includes numerous illustrations from the archives of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, as well as Najac’s eyewitness descr…
GMN 13378 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15649
1932 EXNER, Max Joseph (1871 – 1943)
The sexual side of marriage.
A very good advice book for its time by a physician. Initially published by a small publisher, this book was rapidly reprinted, many times by W.W. Norton. The cover reprinted an endorsement by Havelock Ellis: "An admi…
GMN 12753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14999
1933 VAN DE VELDE, Theodoor Hendrik (1873 – 1937)
Sex efficiency through exercises. Special physical culture for women, with 480 cinematographic and 54 full-page illustrations.
Includes a series of 12 "cinematographic" films on 480 flicker cards. In all the photographs frontal nudity of the female model is covered by clothing, though her buttocks are exposed in some views. Having previously …
GMN 13200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15461
1936 ROBINSON, Victor (1866 – 1947)
Encyclopaedia sexualis: A comprehensive encyclopaedia-dictionary of the sexual sciences. Edited by Victor Robinson.
One of the first encyclopedias of sexuality, published when relevant information was difficult to obtain, especially in English.
GMN 7035 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9202
1937 YOUNG, Hugh Hampton (1870 – 1945)
Genital abnormalities, hermaphroditism and related adrenal diseases.
GMN 3876 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4934
1937 PRITCHER, Jacob Leon
A sex starved world.
A eugenic utopian fantasy, in which we accompany a doctor in his dream journey to the liberated land of Amor. Pritcher presents an impassioned argument for free universal health care, contraception, no-fault divorce, …
GMN 11797 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13999
1938 MCINDOE, Sir Archibald Hector (1900 – 1960); BANISTER, John Bright (1880 – 1938)
An operation for the cure of congenital absence of the vagina.
Mclndoe’s operation for the construction of an artificial vagina.
GMN 6133 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7657
1938 SANGER, Margaret (1879 – 1966)
Margaret Sanger: An autobiography.
GMN 7406 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9578
1946 DILLON, Michael (1915 – 1962)
Self: A study in ethics and endocrinology.
An early work on transexualism. Dillon was the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty. Between 1946 and 1949 Dillon underent at least 13 surgeries performed by Harold Gillies for sex-reassignment surgery.
GMN 13085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15337
1948 KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956); POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001); MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014)
Sexual behavior in the human male.
GMN 7038 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9205
1950 GRÄFENBERG, Ernst (1881 – 1957)
The role of urethra in female orgasm.
"The G-spot, also called the Gräfenberg spot (for German gynecologist Ernst Gräfenberg), is characterized as an erogenous area of the vagina that, when stimulated, may lead to strong sexual arousal, powerful orgasms a…
GMN 13609 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15889
1953 KINSEY, Alfred Charles (1894 – 1956); POMEROY, Wardell Baxter (1913 – 2001); MARTIN, Clyde E. (1918 – 2014); GEBHARD, Paul Henry (1917 – 2015)
Sexual behavior in the human female
GMN 7037 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9204
1954 JONCKHEERE, Frans (1903 – 1956)
"L'Eunuque dans l'Égypte pharaonique.
Full annotated text available at https://people.well.com/user/aquarius/pharaonique.htm.
GMN 9879 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12067
1955 DEVEREUX, George (1908 – 1985)
A study of abortion in primitive societies. A typological, distributional, and dynamic analysis of the prevention of birth in 400 preindustrial societies.
GMN 9103 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11282
1958 SAVITSCH, Eugene de (1902 – 1959)
Homosexuality, transvestism and change of sex.
Probably the first publication to illustrate the stages of surgical transition from male to female, and to discuss the risks then involved in the operations. Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 14170 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16485
1961 ELLIS, Albert (1913 – 2007); ABARBANEL, Albert Brandt (1912 – )
The encyclopedia of sexual behavior.
GMN 7200 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9367
1962 –1968 HENRIQUES, Louis Fernando (1916 – 1976)
Prostitution and society. A survey. 3 vols.
Vol. 1: Primitive, classical and oriental. Vol. 2: Prostitution in Europe and the New World. Vol 3: Modern sexuality.
GMN 1671.5 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2295
1966 MASTERS, William Howell (1915 – 2001); JOHNSON, Virginia Eschelman (1925 – 2013)
Human sexual response.
Pioneering work on the human sexual response cycle by the researchers known as Masters and Johnson.
GMN 7039 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9206
1966 BENJAMIN, Harry (1885 – 1986)
The transsexual phenomenon.
"A scientific report on transsexualism and sex conversion in the human male and female."
GMN 11373 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13572
1967 JORGENSEN, Christine (1926 – 1989)
Christine Jorgensen: A personal autobiography.
GMN 14166 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/16481
1969 GREEN, Richard (1936 – 2019); MONEY, John William (1921 – 2006)
Transexualism and sex reassignment. Edited by Richard Green and John Money.
Probably the first scientific book on transsexuality issued by a university press. "Transsexualism and Sex Reassignment had its origins in the advisory board meetings of the Henry Benjamin Foundation. In the earliest …
GMN 11413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13612
1970 HAWLEY, Nancy Miriam
Women and their bodies.
This 35-cent, 136-page book organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College, was written by twelve Boston feminist activists. It eventually sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal a…
GMN 10554 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12747
1971 SERRANO VICÉNS, Ramón (1908 – 1978)
La sexualidad femenina. Una investigación estadística.
"Between 1932 and 1961 Serrano Vicéns systematically studied the sexuality of 1417 women who went through his surgery. With that data, he wrote a book entitled "Female sexuality. A statistical investigation " that rem…
GMN 10845 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13041
1971 GUERRA PÉREZ-CARRAL, Francisco (1916 – 2011)
The pre-Columbian mind: A study into the aberrant nature of sexual drives, drugs affecting behaviour and the attitude towards life and death, with a survey of psychotherapy in pre-Columbian America.
GMN 10858 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13054
1971 WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)
Love between women.
GMN 13395 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15666
1974 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – ); HALLER, Robin M.
The physician and sexuality in Victorian America.
GMN 9411 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11594
1974 MORRIS, Jan (1926 – )
Conundrum.
Morris underwent male to female sex change surgery by Georges Burou in Casablanca during the 1960s. As a much-published writer, her book was one of the first to draw wide attention to the phenomenon. New edition, with…
GMN 11356 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13554
1974 LAUB, Donald R. (1935 – ); NOE, Joel M.; BIRDSELL, Dale
The surgical construction of male genitalia for the female-to-male transsexual.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Noe, Birdsell, Laub.
GMN 11369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13568
1974 LAUB, Donald R. (1935 – ); GANDY, Patrick; BUROU, Georges (1910 – 1987)
Proceedings of the second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Gender Dysphoria Syndrome. Edited by Donald R. Laub and Patrick Gandy.
A symposium held at the Stanford University School of Medicine, February 2-4, 1973. It is probable that this is the first separate publication on the medical and surgical aspects of transsexuality -- male to female an…
GMN 11371 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13570
1976 –2018 FOUCAULT, Paul-Michel (Michel Foucault) (1926 – 1984)
Histoire de la sexualité. 4 vols.
The first 3 vols. were translated into English by Robert Hurley as The history of sexuality (1978-1986).
GMN 9948 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12136
1977 WOLFF, Charlotte (1897 – 1986)
Bisexuality: A study.
Based on interviews with 150 self-identified bisexuals, equal numbers of men and women.
GMN 10867 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13063
1977 STOPES, Marie Charlotte Carmichael (1880 – 1958)
Marie Stopes: A checklist of her writings
The printed dust jacket reads differently from the title page: "Marie Stopes: A preliminary checklist of her writings together with some biographical notes."
GMN 13376 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15647
1978 BENTHAM, Jeremy (1747 – 1832); CROMPTON, Louis (1925 – 2009)
Offenses against one's self. Edited by Louis Crompton.
This is the first publication of Jeremy Bentham's essay on "Paederasty," written about 1785. Bentham suppressed the essay during his lifetime, for fear of public outrage at his views on liberalizing the laws concernin…
GMN 10209 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12398
1978 SERRANO VICÉNS, Ramón (1908 – 1978)
Informe sexual de la mujer española.
GMN 10846 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13042
1980 MOSHER, Clelia Duel (1863 – 1940)
The Mosher survey: Sexual attitudes of 45 Victorian women, edited by James Mahood and Kristine Wenburg.
The only known survey of the sexual habits of Victorian women, published for the first time nearly 100 years after the survey was initiated. Moser, an American physician, began the survey in 1892 as an undergraduate w…
GMN 7078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9245
