Ethnological and Cultural Studies of the Sex Life in England as Revealed in Its Erotic and Obscene Literature and Art

Résumé du livre

Iwan Bloch (1872-1922) was a Berlin dermatologist and is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade?s manuscript of The 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugene Duhren in 1904.In 1899 he had published Marquis de Sade: His life and Works.Together with Magnus Hirschfeld Bloch proposed the new concept of a science of sexuality: Sexualwissenschaft or sexology. In 1906 he wrote ?The sexual life of our time; a complete encyclopedia of the sexual sciences in their relation to modern civilization.?