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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud
Austrian psychoanalyst
Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician
Harry Benjamin
American endocrinologist and sexologist
William H. Masters
American physician
Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia E. Johnson
American sex therapist
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Indian spiritual leader
Havelock Ellis
Havelock Ellis
British essayist and physician
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey
American scientist
Ellen Key.
Ellen Key
Swedish writer
Richard, baron von Krafft-Ebing
German psychologist
Ibn Ḥazm
Spanish Muslim scholar
Dan Savage
Dan Savage
American writer
Alex Comfort
British author