[Ads-l] Some Antedatings of Sexual Terms

[Shapiro, Fred]

erotomania (OED 1874)

1852 J. B. Bucknill & D. H. Tuke _Manual of Psychological Medicine_ 212


exhibitionist (OED 1893)

1892 Hack Tuke _A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine_ 535


inversion (sexual sense) (OED 1895)

1890 Charles Mercier _Sanity and Insanity_ 154


perverted (sexual sense) (OED 1995)

1881 _Brain_ IV. 368


Fred Shapiro




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