Let’s get physical (and clinical) this #ThrowbackThursday.
This week, we look back on Donna Drucker’s 2019 article, “Clinical Demonstration by Two Expert Intellectuals”: Robert Latou Dickinson’s Representations of Sexual Intercourse.
Find it here: https://wp.me/p6JJ6S-3LT
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Robert Latou Dickinson was an obstetrician and gynecologist. Describing Dickinson’s work with Alfred Kinsey in the mid 1940s, Drucker explains how live sexual encounters were being organised and observed by researchers, even if such practices were kept quiet.
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In many ways, including the imminent shift to filming encounters, the documents created during live sexual encounters represent a period on the cusp of something new.
Read Drucker’s fascinating article to find out more.
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