Sex and Life. Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments

Steinach, E.; Loebel, J. Pierre

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“…At autopsy, the muscles and internal organs were found to be well-nourished and flushed with blood. The dimensions of the internal reproductive organs (particularly Steinach's yardstick organ, the seminal vesicle) were as in young adult specimens of the same species [15]. There was no hypermasculinization or hyperfeminization; merely optimal sexualization.…”

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“…From 1910, Steinach had begun to investigate the physiology of the sex glands. He conducted many elegant experiments demonstrating the role of the sex glands in determining anatomical sex-characteristics, psychosexual orientation, and sexual behavior [15].…”

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“…Steinach collectively designated the interstitial cells as the puberty-gland since he believed them to trigger the onset of puberty. The hormones of the "puberty-gland" determined sexual orientation, sustained erotic interest, and governed the functions of the internal and external genitalia [15][16].…”

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Rejuvenation and the Prolongation of Life: Science or Quackery?

Sengoopta¹

1993

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Across the ages, human beings have tried to prolong life and evade senility by magical, religious, and scientific means. In modern times, the role of science has naturally been preeminent. For a time during the early decades of this century, scientists indeed seemed to have discovered a number of methods to conquer senility. Appearances, unsurprisingly, were deceptive, and the entire episode was soon forgotten. Neither scientists nor historians have devoted much attention to the topic, and only a few historical studies are available [1][2]. Contemporary scientists or physicians think of this subject, if at all, as part of the history of quackery or, at best, of the gullibility of scientists.Closer historical examination reveals this view to be simplistic. To be sure, rejuvenation research had its share of cranks and charlatans. Even the serious scientists in the area were frequently unsound in their methods and drew hasty, wish-fulfilling conclusions. It is unfair, however, to overlook that these flaws notwithstanding, much of this research was conceived along accepted scientific doctrine of the time. The history of rejuvenation research, like the history of science in general, reveals a complex interplay of rationality, gullibility, and sheer folly.

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Rejuvenation and the Prolongation of Life: Science or Quackery?

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1993

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“…Ein anderer Vertreter dieser Zeit war Serge Voronoff, der Segmente von Affenhoden in Männer transplantierte [11]. Spätestens Ende der 1940er Jahre wurden diese xenograftischen Bemühungen endgültig verworfen [10].…”

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Operative Therapie der erektilen Dysfunktion

Pottek

2015

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“…As he put it, "The implantation of the gonad of the opposite sex transforms the original sex of an animal." 9 His work directly influenced Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and other sexological scientists. 10 By the early twentieth century, a few records of surgery for human "inverts" refer simply to removal of body parts such as testicles, uteri, and breasts, a form of intervention that did not require advanced medical technology.…”

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Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930–1955

Meyerowitz¹

1998

GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

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, the New York Daily News announced the "sex change" surgery of Christine Jorgensen. The front-page headline read "Ex-GI Becomes Blonde Beauty: Operations Transform Bronx Youth," and the story told how Jorgensen had traveled to Denmark for "a rare and complicated treatment." The initial scoop soon escalated into an international media frenzy. Reporters cast Jorgensen, who was young and beautiful, as a starlet on the rise, and within two weeks had sent out fifty thousand words on her through the news wire services. 1 In the winter of 1953, Jorgensen returned to the United States and surrendered to her celebrity. That spring, she embarked on a show business career that kept her name on marquees and her body in spotlights for the rest of the decade. The press coverage accorded to Jorgensen triggered an avalanche of publicity about sex change through surgery and hormones, but she was not the first transsexual, nor was her story the first media attention to sex change. Stories of "sex reversals," "sex changes," and "sexual metamorphoses" had appeared in American newspapers and magazines since the 1930s. These stories differed from the more frequent reports of "passing," in which a person known previously as one sex was discovered living as the other. 2 Rather, these were sensationalized stories of bodily change that, in the decades before Jorgensen's fame, introduced American readers to the concept of sex transformation. In this article, I place Christine Jorgensen in broader historical context. I focus on the European origins of medicalized sex change in the early twentieth century, on specific examples of American media coverage of sex changes in the 1930s and 1940s, and on the responses of people whom we might now label trans-GLQ 4:2 pp. 159-187

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Sex and Life. Forty Years of Biological and Medical Experiments

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Rejuvenation and the Prolongation of Life: Science or Quackery?

Rejuvenation and the Prolongation of Life: Science or Quackery?

Operative Therapie der erektilen Dysfunktion

Sex Change and the Popular Press: Historical Notes on Transsexuality in the United States, 1930–1955

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