Psychopathia Sexualis (Volume) - Softcover

Jones, Kelvin I.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1082071072 ISBN 13: 9781082071072

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

Kelvin I Jones, the editor of this second volume of Krafft Ebing's groundbreaking Psychopathia Sexualis, writes: 'In the climate of sexual intolerance which formed part of my own childhood, such phrases as ‘queer’, ‘Nancy boy’ and ‘sodomite’ were common currency among my own school friends and my parents. My father, a Welsh Baptist and policeman, railed at the authors of the government White Paper which, in the 1960s, aimed to decriminalise homosexuality, claiming that we were witnessing a complete moral decline. In those fairly recent times, I found myself in disagreement. Now, over 50 years later, witnessing the horrific legacy of homophobia in the UK and in many middle eastern countries where such sexual behaviour is still classified as a crime, I believe that the work of the German – Jewish analysts has, to a great extent, saved us from a new Dark Ages, once initiated by Adolf Hitler, but now still seen as a lurker on the threshold of the civilized world.Mr Jones is the editor of the revised and annotated six volume edition of 'Satyriasis,' the epic erotic autobiography of a Victorian gentleman, and a renowned authority on the Sherlock Holmes stories and the work of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1082071072
• ISBN 13: 9781082071072
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 548