What is it about?
This is the story of how the sexological research questionnaire evolved as a product of assertive homosexual men and their autobiographical sexual histories coming into contact with the earliest sexual scientists in Germany.
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Why is it important?
Why is historical study ever important? Our evaluations of the past, inform the present. In the specific case of nineteenth century sexology and homosexuality: teasing out the origins of sexual identities helps us better understand the value and nature of these identities today.
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This page is a summary of: The evolution of the questionnaire in German sexual science: A methodological narrative, History of Science, October 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0073275319881014.
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