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| | from Ideas on Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Contrary to popular knowledge, the most famous expert on sex in those days was not Sigmund Freud, but Richard von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902), whose enduring fame rests on his book, Psychopathia Sexualis, first published in 1886. |
 | | For the first time in history, Psychopathia Sexualis offered people a catalogue of the countless ways -- other than the missionary position in heterosexual intercourse -- in which human beings could extract sexual pleasure from their bodies. |
 | | Prior to the publication of Psychopathia Sexualis, abnormal sexual acts were, literally, "unspeakable abominations," shoved under the carpet of human consciousness as bestial, unnatural, and sinful, and of course criminal as well. |
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