Iwan Bloch: The Journal of Sexology

Iwan Bloch (1872-1922), a Berlin dermatologist, believed that the medical view of sex­ual behavior was shortsighted and that both historical and anthropological research could help broaden it. He hoped that sexual science would one day have the same struc­ture and objectivity as other sciences. Along with Magnus Hirschfeld, Bloch and several other physicians formed a medical society for sexology research in Berlin. It was the first sexological society, and it exercised considerable influence (we will talk more about this society below). Starting in 1914, Bloch published the Journal of Sexology, a scientific journal about sexology. For almost 2 decades this journal collected and published many important sexological studies. Bloch planned to write a series of sexological studies, but due to World War I and his untimely death at the age of 50, he never did.

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