Psychopathia Sexualis

At a time when such topics were taboo to mention, Kraft-Ebbing boldly displays the psychological basis of sexual "deviances".

Homosexuality, masochism, sadism, fetishism, nymphomania, pedophilia, and many other "conditions" are elaborated in this book and demonstrated via case studies. This is the first work on homosexuality, Kraft-Ebbing considers it to be a "biological anomaly" which originates i...