Highlights from the photography collection of the 19th-century sexologist and author of Psychopathia Sexualis (1896), Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, who was born #onthisday in 1840: https://t.co/IvRQfk5XmL #otd https://t.co/XwT6G5yi2E

The 5th issue of Top Stories, Linda Neaman’s Foot Facts, presents a critical history of the objectification & punishment of women's feet. A reading list feat. Kristeva, Krafft-Ebing’s “Psychopathia Sexualis,” and Dworkin’s “Woman Hating” round out the issue. ⁠ https://t.co/zWAyCMSf8B

@SylviaWoodham The word "Homosexual" was coined by Karl Maria Kertberry, a human rights journalist, in 1868. Krafft-Ebing used it in "Psychopathia Sexualis" (a best-seller) in 1886, which is how it became the standard term. Wasn't Freud, whose first book, "On Aphasia", was published in 1891.