Not to forget the more controversial, but immensely influential figure of von Krafft-Ebing, an German-Austrian psychiatrist who was a true early bird in the emp

Not to forget the more controversial, but immensely influential figure of von Krafft-Ebing, an German-Austrian psychiatrist who was a true early bird in the empiric sexuology with his "Psychopathia Sexualis". The good about him: he was one of the first to adopt an empiric approach in sexual science and sexual medicine (which influenced Hirschfeld's thinking). The bad: he is also responsible for the link between sexuology and medicine, which led to the thinking of "treatable perversions", even if he had a lot of compassion for the subjects of his book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Krafft-Ebing