Sexual Neuroses

A remarkable artifact of Victorian medical thought, this 1879 treatise offers an unflinching examination of what Kent termed "sexual neuroses." Through detailed case studies and clinical observations, Kent catalogs conditions ranging from spermatorrhœa to nymphomania, approaching each with the earnest scientific rigor of a physician convinced he is illuminating previously taboo territory. The book is striking not for its clinical accuracy much has been disproven but for what it reveals about an era's anxieties around sexuality, nervous energy, and the presumed fragility of human constitution. For readers interested in the history of medicine, sexuality, or the evolution of psychiatric thought, this provides uncomfortable but essential reading. One senses Kent genuinely believed he was performing a public service by naming what others would not.