Talk:Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
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“After Krafft-Ebing graduated in medicine and finished his specialisation in psychiatry, he worked in several asylums, but he soon felt that the way those institutions worked deceived him and decided to become an educator.”
I don’t understand this: “…the way those institutions worked deceived him.” Presumably he disapproved of the way the asylums operated, but surely he was not “deceived” by their methods. Is this a case of bad translation? Bog 13:40, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
i am very confused by some of the information in this article - it says "Krafft-Ebing reached the conclusion that both male and female homosexuals did not suffer from mental illness or perversion ...".
I have read many other sources and they all contradict this. For example on gayhistory.com it says that
"Krafft-Ebing concluded that most homosexuals have a mental illness caused by degenerate heredity. While Krafft-Ebing pitied these unfortunate congenital effeminates, he sputtered with moral revulsion when he described "cultivated pederasts," men who he believed were born "normal" but turned to homosexual liasons for "perverted" sexual thrills." I think there has been some confusion in the wikipedia article - this should be fixed. ∼∼∼∼
