A proposed cure for homosexuality and the circulation of male hormone therapies in Brazil, 1938-1949
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3088293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rarielle Rodrigues Lima (0000-0001-7652-735X, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Pages | e2025023-e2025023 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | História Ciências Saúde-Manguinhos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0104-5970 • E-ISSN: 1678-4758 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/s0104-59702025000100023en |
| PMID | 40396860 |
| OpenAlex | W4410482154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This article analyzes Homossexualismo e endocrinologia (1938), by the medical examiner Leonídio Ribeiro. The work recommends opotherapy for leading "passive pederasts" towards heterosexuality. Opotherapy, or organotherapy, created in the late 1800s, consisted of using medicines produced from glandular secretions from non-human animals to treat humans with disorders of the endocrine glands. The study examines how the male body was represented and how a culture of compulsory virility was promoted in commercial advertisements for glandular extracts in 1930s and 1940s Brazil. The aim is to contribute to contemporary scholarship on the history of the "gay cure" and its intimate connections with eugenics
Eugenics · Homosexuality · Masculinity · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Sociology · Testosterone (patch) · Virility · Gender Studies · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Internal Medicine · Law · Medicine
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Libertar o brasileiro de seu captiveiro moral
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A emergência da biotipologia no Brasil
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A proposed cure for homosexuality and the circulation of male hormone therapies in Brazil, 1938-1949
O império dos hormônios e a construção da diferença entre os sexos
Ocitocina sintética e a aceleração do parto
A psicanálise e a sexologia no Rio de Janeiro de entreguerras
Os curiosos xenoimplantes glandulares do doutor Voronoff
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |