Quantifying Sexual Constitution: Abraham Myerson's Endocrine Study of Male Homosexuality, 1938-1942

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew J McLaughlin
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Male Sexuality ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Hormone Excretion

Abstract Using the new medical science of endocrinology, scientific sex researchers in the 1920s and 1930s began studying sex hormone excretion as a means to search for the biological basis of human sexuality. One of these researchers was Abraham Myerson, a leading psychiatrist and researcher from Boston who conducted a series of innovative endocrine experiments between 1938 and 1942 in an effort to establish a relationship between sex hormone excretion patterns and homosexuality in men. While prevailing cultural models of heteronormativity identified male homosexuality as an abnormal case of biological femininity in men, Myerson’s framework and experimental research transcended this limiting duality of sexual biology. Adopting the theory of bisexuality, he argued that all men possessed a natural variability of masculine and feminine traits in their biological, social, and sexual characteristics, and that the disparity among these traits could be quantified and understood using sex hormones. In reconstructing Myerson’s research methods and data analysis, this paper uncovers how he established a distinctive diagnostic method and classification system for male homosexuality and illuminates how he conceptualized and categorized male sexuality as quantifiable and independent of personality.

“I Walked in on Them”: Young Adults’ Childhood Perceptions of Sex and Nudity in Family and Public Contexts

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (15) ◽  
pp. 3804-3831 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine R. Allen ◽  
Emily A. Gary ◽  
Erin S. Lavender-Stott ◽  
Christine E. Kaestle
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
Real Person ◽  
Parental Responses ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Immediate Reactions

Children’s observation of sex and nudity among parents, peers, or strangers has received limited scholarly attention, mostly because research on sexuality in childhood is difficult or prohibitive to conduct. To address this topic, we conducted a secondary data analysis of 57 human sexuality students’ narratives regarding the emotional and situational contexts of the first sexual image they recalled. We examined those narratives where participants reported that they saw was a “real person” either nude or engaged in sexual behavior. These participants reported viewing three kinds of sexual behavior or nudity: parental, other family members, and nonfamily. In examining participants’ immediate reactions and long-term reflections, we found that many participants, especially females, were confused or upset by what they saw, but few reported a lingering discomfort. Our results indicate that children would benefit from immediate, nurturant, and clarifying parental responses, particularly when children walk in on parents having sex.

Relationship Between Hyperviscosity and Sex Hormone in Azoospermia and Oligozoospermia Patients Compares with The Control Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 637-639
Author(s):  
Hayder L F AL-Msaid ◽  
H A Waleed ◽  
Alaauldeen S M AL-Sallami
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Male Infertility ◽  
Sex Hormones ◽  
Seminal Fluid ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Common Cause ◽  
Sperm Counts ◽  
Sperm Dysfunction

Background: Seminal fluid is important factor for successful fertility, Sperm dysfunction is the most common cause of male infertility. Aim of study: To compare the sex hormone in patient with azoospermia, Oligozoospermia and Normospermia fertile men as a control To find out the causes of semen viscosity. Patients and methods: Data analysis from azoospermia patient (n = 35) and Oligozoospermia (n = 35) and Normospermia fertile men as a control (n = 13). Results: The results of this study revealed significant reduction (p andGLT;0.05) semen was reduced in azoospermia infertile patient (mean ± Std. Error 0.76 ± 0.21 also reduced in Oligozoospermia 0.71 ± 0.23 while showed no significant FSH and LH level between azoospermia and Oligozoospermia compare with Normospermia fertile men. Conclusion: The viscosity in semen has a strong relationship with low sperm counts is an important factor with sex hormones therefore it is the cause affecting the motile spermatozoa.

scholarly journals Types, norms, and normalisation: Hormone research and treatments in Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, c. 1900–50

2020 ◽  
pp. 095269512094119
Author(s):  
Chiara Beccalossi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Physiological Model ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sex Characteristics ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Hormone Research ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Hormone Therapies

Displacing the physiological model that had held sway in 19th-century medical thinking, early 20th-century hormone research promoted an understanding of the body and sexual desires in which variations in sex characteristics and non-reproductive sexual behaviours such as homosexuality were attributed to anomalies in the internal secretions produced by the testes or the ovaries. Biotypology, a new brand of medical science conceived and led by the Italian endocrinologist Nicola Pende, employed hormone research to study human types and hormone treatments to normalise individuals who did not conform to accepted medical norms. Latin American medical doctors, eugenicists, and sexologists took up biotypology with enthusiasm. This article considers the case studies of Italy, Argentina, and Brazil, and analyses the work of medical doctors who adopted a biotypological mode of reasoning and employed to various extents hormone therapies in their practice. By focusing on hormone therapies that aimed to normalise secondary sexual characteristics and the sexual instinct, the article suggests that while the existence of normality was contested to the point that a number of medical scientists argued that no such thing existed, the pursuit of normality was carried out in very practical terms through the new medical technologies hormone research had introduced.

scholarly journals Intelligent System for Solving Problems of Veterinary Medicine on the Example of Dairy Farms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shopagulov Olzhas ◽  
Tretyakov Igor ◽  
Ismailova Aisulu
Keyword(s):  
Veterinary Medicine ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Expert System ◽  
Diagnostic Method ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Dairy Farms ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Automated Data Analysis

This article describes an automated expert system developed to diagnose cow diseases and assist veterinarians in treatment. We set before a diagnostic method based on the analysis of observed symptoms and experience of veterinarians. The system represents a web interface for maintaining a database of diseases, their symptoms and treatment methods, as well as a smartphone application for the diagnostics in offline mode. The developed intelligent system will allow agricultural producers to make specific decisions based on automated data analysis. Also presented in the article the information on the developed expert system, and the results of tests and testing during its use. The economic efficiency and importance of the work is determined by the possibility of automated recording of data on the livestock of animals, zoo technical and veterinary operations.

Male homosexuality and homophobia in contemporary Slovakia: A qualitative inquiry into personal online narratives

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Srđan Mladenov Jovanović
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Male Homosexuality ◽  
Qualitative Data Analysis ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Catholic Church

AbstractHomosexuality in Slovakia is covered in a veil of secrecy. With constant attacks by the Catholic Church and populist, traditionalist politicians, it is barely visible in society and politics, unless when discursively attacked. Similarly, homosexuality in Slovakia has failed to become a topic in the contemporary academia, with the exception of a few local works. This article, aiming to fill that gap, confronts a selection of online narratives of Slovak homosexuals via Qualitative Data Analysis through the qualitative tool, QDA Miner, including narrative analysis. Additionally, having in mind the strong propaganda of the Catholic Church against homosexuality, select homophobic narratives are analyzed via the same means.

THE SEX HORMONE EXCRETION OF CHILDREN

Endocrinology ◽  
1938 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
RALPH B. OESTING ◽  
BRUCE WEBSTER
Keyword(s):  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Hormone Excretion

SEX HORMONE STUDIES IN MALE HOMOSEXUALITY

Endocrinology ◽  
1940 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 590-594 ◽  
Author(s):  
S.J GLASS ◽  
H.J DEUEL ◽  
C.A. WRIGHT
Keyword(s):  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Male Homosexuality

SEX-HORMONE EXCRETION AFTER BILATERAL ADRENALECTOMY AND OÖPHORECTOMY IN PATIENTS WITH MAMMARY CARCINOMA

The Lancet ◽  
1956 ◽  
Vol 268 (6950) ◽  
pp. 955-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Strong ◽  
J.B. Brown ◽  
John Bruce ◽  
Mary Douglas ◽  
A.I. Klopper ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mammary Carcinoma ◽  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Bilateral Adrenalectomy ◽  
Hormone Excretion

Serum Gonadotrophin and Testis Biopsy in the Treatment of Schizophrenia

1945 ◽  
Vol 91 (382) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. E. Hemphill ◽  
M. Reiss
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Sex Hormone ◽  
Hormone Deficiency ◽  
Biopsy Material ◽  
Secondary Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Therapeutic Value ◽  
Sexual Characteristics ◽  
Biological Technique ◽  
Appropriate Therapy ◽  
And Control

Sex hormone deficiency in schizophrenia has been suggested by the usual appearance of the psychosis in adolescence, the not infrequent somatic abnormalities, aberration of libido with often its eventual extinction, and, histologically, by the suggestive though not entirely accepted work of Mott (1919), Lewis (1923) and certain others implicating the testis. Accordingly, many workers have treated schizophrenia with sex hormone preparations empirically but without specific endocrine indications. The reported results have been inconsistent and disappointing. In this respect our experience with various hormones has been similar to that of others. The need for a physiological test to establish a diagnosis of endocrine deficiency and control appropriate therapy has been keenly felt. Values for the normal excretion of sex hormones at various stages during adolescence are not as yet established; estimations are not a practical possibility on a large scale, and with the exception of one excretion product of steroid metabolism with an androgenic action, namely, 17-keto-steroids, demand a biological technique. Testis biopsy, described by Charny (1940) and Lane Roberts (1939) is, therefore, a valuable diagnostic procedure, and possibly not without some therapeutic value. We have already described and classified a striking pathology of the testis in schizophrenia from studying biopsy material (Hemphill et al., 1940). The special features were atrophy of seminiferous epithelium, failure of spermatogenesis, thickening and hyalinization of the basement membrane and collapse or shrinkage of many tubules. We were unable to note consistent absence or marked reduction of interstitial elements in cases where secondary sexual characteristics were well developed, although the work of Mott (1919) drew particular attention to failure of internal secretion. The interpretation of the pathology is, of course, uncertain, but the atrophy of spermatogenetic structures suggested that there was a lack of normal or adequate gonadotrophic hormone necessary for the maintenance of spermatogenesis and the activity of the testis as a generative organ. For this reason we treated cases with gonadotrophic hormone of pregnant mare's serum (gestyl). This follicle-stimulating hormone is believed, in the male, to promote spermatogenesis. Treatment was dictated by the histology of the biopsy specimen. Gestyl was administered in 800 to 1,000 unit doses daily for variable periods of up to 48 days. Anti-hormones were tested for at the completion of treatment in the last series of cases, and further biopsies were made as a check-up for physiological efficacy.

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