Asexualisation the book by Bremmer

[Jan_ba2003 (imported)]

Has anyone got a copy of this, it is a great book by Bremmer, Johan. Please search your local Library, and post excerpts. I have only read one case study but I beleive there are 100's about boys that have been castrate. It could be Bremer ?

[Paolo]

http://www.sandiegohistory.org/journal/89fall/most.htm

This link cites castration as a punishment to crimes and uses this book by Bremer as a source. Bremer's book is mainly concerned with castration to induce asexualization for punishements of sex crimes. No listings show anything in the book having to do with boys, medical reasons for castration of boys, etc.; it only deals with the criminal aspects.

Still searching.

Another link with an overview of Bremer's book:

Bremer, Johan. Asexualization: A Follow-Up Study of 244 Cases (New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Co., 1959).

An in-depth discussion of the uses and reported outcomes of castration as a therapeutic measure to control putative sex offenders -- including male homosexuals -- in Norway, 1935-1949. The first chapter reviews the development of laws in the United States and Europe permitting castration. In addition, it provides a summary of earlier follow-up studies, among them German publications dating from 1938 to 1944 reporting on compulsory and so-called voluntary castration during the Third Reich.

Bremer notes that the Nazi law authorizing judges to order punitive castration was imposed in Norway during the German occupation of 1940-45, but claims that neither the frequency nor the circumstances of use of castration in Norway changed significantly from the pre-Occupation period due to resistance by Norwegian doctors. As a result, he does not break out by year the cases which he tabulates, making it impossible to determine from his statistics if any of the castrations of male homosexuals in Norway took place under Nazi rule.

While Bremer's language is awkward, and while his focus is psychiatric and behavioral, this book is nonetheless of value as one of the first in English to discuss uses of castration during the Nazi period. By documenting the pre-Nazi movement for castration of sex offenders, as well as employment of the procedure outside of Germany, it also serves as a reminder that at least some of the gruesome legal and medical interventions against homosexuals under the Nazis must be seen as part of a broader historical and cultural phenomenon.

[For other sources on the castration of homosexual men under the Nazi regime, see Geoffrey Giles, "The Most Unkindest Cut of All" (http://members.aol.com/dalembert/lgbt_h ... chor732699) (1992), and David Hackett, The Buchenwald Report (http://members.aol.com/dalembert/lgbt_h ... chor568617) (1995).]

Originally found at http://members.aol.com/dalembert/lgbt_h ... io_al.html

A link at Barnes and Nobel for used copies of the book:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/oopboo ... hor=&itm=1

[JesusA (imported)]

VBulletin seems to have some strange quirks. Sometimes a posting to this board disappears into the aether without a trace as soon as a message is sent to me that it is in the holding tank and I need to check it. Other times it slips through onto the board without checking.

Jan_ba2003’s post is of this latter type. When I received the message about it, I decided that it was inappropriate on THIS board, but should be on Eunuch Central. The book is a significant one and does deserve a proper review. I hope that some Archive reader will provide one.

Below is the letter that I had composed to send to Jan before opening the Archive to find his address:

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Dear Jan_ba2003,

I just received the e-mail message below from the wizard at the Eunuch Archive. A REQUEST for a nonfiction post properly belongs on the Eunuch Central board, rather than the Nonfiction Board (where the actual review should go). You are right that the book is an important one and certainly deserves a proper review with enough excerpts to demonstrate what it is about. I doubt that I will have time for it in the forseeable future – I have about a dozen items that I currently have on my plate to review. If you post your request, maybe someone will spring to action and do it.

The full title of the book is “Asexualization: a follow-up study of 244 cases” and it was written by Johan Bremer. The book was originally published in 1958 by the Oslo University Press in Norway, with an American edition in 1959 by Macmillan. The book should be readily available in any large library in either North America or Europe.

I look forward to seeing your request on Eunuch Central.

Jesus Azevado

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Has anyone got a copy of this, it is a great book by Bremmer, Johan. Please search your local Library, and post excerpts. I have only read one case study

but I beleive there are 100's about boys that have been castrate. It could be

bremer ?

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[Uncle Flo (imported)]

I have a copy of this book. I had to acquire it through a dealer in scarce books. It is difficult to summarize a work of this nature. This is a report of an attempt to scientificly study the subject. The printing refered to is a translation from Norwegan,a notoriously evasive language. If you find a copy for sale at less than US$40.00 it is a good price indeed. My copy cost me US$28.00 fifteen or twenty years ago.

[Jan_ba2003 (imported)]

I have a copy of this book. I had to acquire it through a dealer in scarce books. It is difficult to summarize a work of this nature. This is a report of an attempt to scientificly study the subject. The printing refered to is a translation from Norwegan,a notoriously evasive language. If you find a copy for sale at less than US$40.00 it is a good price indeed. My copy cost me US$28.00 fifteen or twenty years ago.

I would love you to summarise the good case studdies, I am a female not male as suggested and sorry for putting the post in the wrong area. [email protected]