How Did Early Sexologists And Psychologists Contribute To Our Understanding Of The Erotic?

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Early sexologists and psychologists were pioneers in the field of analyzing the erotic life, whose work among other things, made three main contributions that still shape a modern understanding of the erotic. The first of them being the claim that sexuality is innate and “essentially a matter of biology and physiology” (Seidman 3). In effect, making it an unquestionable truth, apart of the body as much as a limb or internal organ and above social critique as it was placed as a naturalized truth. Second of them stemming from Freud, the first to separate sexuality and eroticism, noting the many bodily pleasures exists for our enjoyment. “Moreover, humans get pleasure not only from sexual intercourse but also kissing, touching, caressing, looking,