2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British physician and writer who was the first major English-language sexologist — writing the encyclopedic Studies in the Psychology of Sex that normalized previously taboo sexual topics.
German-Austrian psychiatrist who wrote Psychopathia Sexualis (1886) — the first systematic scientific classification of sexual disorders — coining the terms sadism, masochism, and fetishism, and establishing sexology as a medical discipline.