Chapter Summary<\/summary>\nThis chapter critically explores how sexuality emerged as a central concept in psychology, medicine, and society thought during the second half of the nineteenth century. Moving beyond a biological understanding of sex, the chapter traces the historical construction of sexuality as a site of identity, regulation, and scientific interest. Drawing on Michel Foucault\u2019s History of Sexuality (1978), it challenges the assumption that sexuality was simply repressed in the Victorian era, instead highlighting the production of sexuality through the proliferations of discourse, classification, and control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The chapter introduces key sexologists such as Richard von Krafft-Ebing, Magnus Hirschfeld and Havelock Ellis, whose work transformed sexual behaviours into medical and legal categories. These scientific frameworks are contrasted with the erotic arts, artistic and spiritual traditions (ars erotica, e.g. the Kama Sutra) that understood sexuality to be a form of expression and experience rather than as a potential pathology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Building on the distinction between natural and human kinds, the chapter introduces Ian Hacking\u2019s concept of the looping effect. The chapter concludes by showing how scientific classifications of sexuality shaped, and were reshaped by, the individuals they described, illustrating the complex interplay between knowledge, power, and identity in psychological thought.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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