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The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as ''Institute of Sex Research'', ''Institute of Sexology'', ''Institute for Sexology'' or ''Institute for the Science of Sexuality''. The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the Institute. The Institute was a non-profit foundation situated in Berlin's Tiergarten. It was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. Since 1897 he had run the ''Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee'' ("Scientific-Humanitarian Committee"), which campaigned on conservative and rational grounds for gay rights and tolerance. The Committee published the long-running journal ''Jahrbuch fur sexuelle Zwischenstufen''. Hirschfeld was also a researcher; he collected questionnaires from 10,000 people, informing his book ''Die Homosexualität des Mannes und des Weibes'' ("The Homosexuality of Man and Woman", 1914). He built a unique library on same-sex love and eroticism.〔Harry Oosterhuis. (Ed.) ''Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise: Original Transcripts from Der Eigene, the First Gay Journal in the World''. (1991).〕 After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street. ==Origins and purpose== The ''Institute of Sex Research'' was opened in 1919 by Hirschfeld and his collaborator Arthur Kronfeld,〔 (''In Memory of Arthur Kronfeld'' ( )) - (see also here ) or the entry about Arthur Kronfeld in the german Wikipedia. 〕 a once famous psychotherapist and later professor at the Charité. As well as being a research library and housing a large archive, the Institute also included medical, psychological, and ethnological divisions, and a marriage and sex counseling office. The Institute was visited by around 20,000 people each year, and conducted around 1,800 consultations. Poorer visitors were treated for free. In addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women's emancipation, and was a pioneer worldwide in the call for civil rights and social acceptance for homosexual and transgender people. In 1929 Hirschfeld presided over the third international congress of the World League for Sexual Reform at Wigmore Hall.〔The Times, ''League For Sexual Reform International Congress Opened'', 9 September 1929;〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Institut für Sexualwissenschaft」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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