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“CASE 146. Once summer's evening, at twilight, X.Y., a doctor of medicine in a North German city, was trodden on by a watchman as he (the doctor) was committing an immoral act with a tramp on a path in a field. He was practicing masturbation on him and thereupon putting the tramp's penis into his mouth.”

Quote by Richard von Krafft-Ebing

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Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study

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Richard von Krafft-Ebing
Richard von Krafft-Ebing

Richard von Krafft-Ebing was a German psychiatrist born on August 14, 1840, and died on December 22, 1902. He made significant contributions to the fields of psychiatry and sexology, particularly for his classification studies on homosexuality and sexual perversions. more

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