Pillow Talk: Credibility, Trust and the Sexological Case History

The article focuses on the best way to study sexology in history. According to the article, it is by conceiving it as a field and seeing how it uses field-specific tropes and practices such as the case history that personifies acceptable theory to establish a stock of knowledge. It is stated that the case histories are not neutral reports but are the basis for sexological thought which is selected, manipulated, and framed to establish sexological facts that will be taken by other members of the field. It added that concentrating on case histories and what they do in practice is an area of the critical historiography. Other topics include sexologist Havelock Ellis, the aetiology of homosexuality, and the theories of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.