History
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Dora “Dorchen” Richter underwent surgical castration in 1922, followed by removal of the penis and vaginoplasty in 1931
Dora “Dorchen” Richter (1891 – presumed 1933) was the first known person to undergo complete male-to-female gender reassignment surgery. She was one of a number of transgender people in the care of sex-research pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld at Berlin’s Institute for… Read more.
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Ludwig Levy-Lenz, German doctor, sexual reformer and pimp compiled the first medical book on abortion
Ludwig Levy-Lenz (born 1 December 1892 in Posen (now PoznaĹ„), German Reich; died 30 October 1966 in Munich) was a German doctor of medicine and a sexual reformer, known for performing some of the… Read more.
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Erwin Gohrbandt, one of the first surgeons to perform sex reassignment surgery and vice president of the Berlin regional association of the German Red Cross
Erwin Gohrbandt (1890 – 1965) was a German surgeon and university teacher. He was one of the first surgeons to perform sex reassignment surgery. Gohrbandt served as vice president of the Berlin… Read more.
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Sexual intermediacy
At the Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft, Magnus Hirschfeld championed the doctrine of sexual intermediacy. This proposed form of classification said that every human trait existed on a scale from masculine to… Read more.
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Eugenics Department for Mother and Child and Experimental Treatments for Impotence
One focus of the Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft‘s research and services was sexual and reproductive health. A subdivision of the institute called the Eugenics Department for Mother and Child offered marital counseling services, and… Read more.
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Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft aimed to educate both the general public and specialists on its topics of focus
It became a point of scientific and research interest for many scientists of sexuality, as well as intellectuals and reformers from all over the world. Visitors included: RenĂ© Crevel, French… Read more.
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Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft
The Institut fĂĽr Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute of Sexology, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The… Read more.
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Experts warn of fatty liver disease ‘epidemic’ in young people
In Bristol University‘s study Children of the 90s, 2.5% of 4,000 people born in 1991 and 1992 were found by ultrasound scanning at the age of 18 to have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease;… Read more.
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Carmel-by-the-Sea prohibits wearing heels taller than 2 inches without a permit
Though often mistakenly thought of as an urban legend, the municipal code prohibits wearing shoes having heels taller than 2 inches (5.1 cm) or with a base of less than 1 square… Read more.
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Ira Remsen (1846 – 1927) discovered artificial sweetener saccharin along with Constantin Fahlberg
Ira Remsen was an American chemist who discovered the artificial sweetener saccharin along with Constantin Fahlberg. He was the second president of Johns Hopkins University. Early life Ira Remsen was born in New York City on February 10, 1846.… Read more.
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