Thomas W. Laqueur is an American sexologist and author of Solitary Sex : A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. Lacqueur is the winner of the Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, and is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. A full list of his publications can be seen on his university profile.

One-Sex-Model

Thomas Laqueur wrote that there was an ancient "one sex model", in which the woman was only described as imperfect man / human and he show that definitions of sex/gender were historical different and changeable. This argument has been challenged by some historians of science, notably Katharine Park

Katharine Park

Katharine Park is Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She specializes in the history of gender, sexuality, and the female body in medieval and Renaissance Europe, as well as categories and practices of experience and...

and Robert A. Nye (1991), Monica Green (2010) and H.-J. Voss (2010), who reject the suggestion that ancient descriptions show a homogenous model, the "One-Sex Model" which then mutated in the eighteenth century to a "Two-Sex Model". They encourage a more differentiated perception that makes clear that gender theories of natural philosophy as well as biology and medicine, are embedded and constructed in certain social contexts.

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• Come Again?A history of the orgasm completely misses the point.