Medico-forensic pre-histories of sexual perversion: The case of necrophilia (c. 1500–c. 1850)

From early modern legal debates about sodomitical, or unnatural, forms of lust, early nineteenth-century European forensic medicine inherited a shortlist of what eventually came to be called perversions of the sex drive. This brief article traces this forensic-medical prehistory of sexual perversion...

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Main Author: Diederik F. Janssen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:Forensic Science International: Mind and Law
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666353820300187