HJERNE & SEXUEL AFVIGELSE

– historiske og moderne nedslag

Abstract

Ever since sexuality became a matter of medical interest in the middle of the 19th century, numerous hypotheses have been put forward as to the relationship between 'sexual deviance' and biology. The earliest fase of sexual biology (approximately 1800-1910) had its main focus on the central nervous system, and today – more than a century after launching the first neuropsychiatric theses – the brain has once again attracted attention as a possible biological substrate of (deviant) sexual behaviour. This article sums up the history of brain-centered sexual science, and the neurobiological sex research of our day is presented and problematized.