Sappho, Sokrates, zwei Aphroditen und Ödipus – Die griechische Antike und die Anfänge der Sexualwissenschaft
Autoren
Manfred Herzer-Wigglesworth
Abstract
The article outlines the reception of antiquity by the gay movement in the German-speaking world from its beginnings in the early 19th C. to the movement’s gradual detachment from ancient Greek myths. The Swiss author Heinrich Hößli initiated this process in 1836 with a book about the „male love of the Greeks“. The first high point of the emancipation movement was reached with the sexual-political and sexological work of Magnus Hirschfeld, who worked as a „doctor for nervous and psychological ailments“ in Berlin and developed a non-pathologizing theory of homosexuality from 1896 onwards. The modernization push achieved after the First World War, which made it possible to largely dispense with ancient references, is hinted at with the mention of the discussion about a „new type of femininity“ in 1923.
Keywords
Sexology, Reception of antiquity, Homosexuality, Hei-nrich Hößli, Magnus Hirschfeld
Metadaten
Veröffentlicht in: Sexuologie. Zeitschrift für Sexualmedizin, Sexualtherapie und Sexualwissenschaft. Band 31 • Jahr 2024 • Heft 1-2, Seiten 83-87