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{{Template:Ac}}'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gisela_Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg]''' (female; born August 2, 1929) is a German sociologist, ethnologist, sexologist, and writer further specializing into the fields of psychology, Indo-European studies, religious studies, philosophy and, since 1980, increasingly anthropology. As Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg uses these approaches in research in fields such as sexology, homophobia, and prejudice studies, the US Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists (SOLGA; formerly Anthropology Research Group on Homosexuality, ARGOH) of the American Anthropological Association, ranked Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg's works on homophobia as internationally outstanding. 

Her 1978 book ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_Homosexualit%C3%A4t Tabu Homosexualität]: Die Geschichte eines Vorurteils'' (The Taboo of Homosexuality: The History of a Prejudice),  is considered a foundational standard work in Germanophone research into homophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, and repression of sensuality and particularly repression of sexual deviance / non-normativity.

Two of her works, ''Mannbarkeitsriten'' (1980) and ''Der pädophile Impuls'' (1985/88) deal with anthropological research into the cross-cultural and cross-species nature on paederasty/[[Pederasty]] in ''Mannbarkeitsriten'', and paedophilia/[[Pedophilia]] (defined as "sexual contact between fertile adults and infertile juveniles") in ''Der pädophile Impuls''. 

The second of these was published in English in 1988, in ''[[Paidika|Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia]]'', as "[https://brongersma.info/Paidika-03 The Paedophile Impulse: Toward the Development of an Etiology of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts from an Ethological and Ethnological Perspective]".<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070504025824/http://www.bkgirls.net/research/gisela1.html Backup webarchive copy].</ref> One commentator described the article as "''probably the most interdisciplinarian scholarly approach to paedophilia ever published''".<ref>https://www.boychat.org/messages/1301775.htm</ref> In the journal's 1992 special issue on [[Intergenerational Lesbianism]], she is interviewed on the topic by [[Feminism|feminist]] activist/researcher [[Marjan Sax]].

In 1990, she published "''[https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1300/J082v20n01_03 Pederasty among primitives: Institutionalized initiation and cultic prostitution]''", contributing to the famous scholarly compendium on "Intergenerational Intimacy" (1991) published as a special issue in the [[Journal of Homosexuality]], with guest editors [[Theo Sandfort]], [[Edward Brongersma]], and [[Alex Van Naersen]].<ref>[https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wjhm20/20/1-2 "Intergenerational Intimacy" (1991) special issue].</ref> As an [[Historical_examples_of_LGBT-MAP_unity|early LGBT advocate]], influential academics like Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg reached and published supportive conclusions about homosexuals and homosexuality, including same-sex relations which transgressed age norms. Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg accurately distinguishes between [[pedophilia]] as an exclusive or preferential attraction to people before puberty, a possible identity category, and the act of intergenerational / age-gap sexual contact, deemed [[child sexual abuse]] in some legal jurisdictions and most current professional literature.

Earlier in 1986, she authored the ''Preface'' to the German edition of the first preliminary report to [[Theo Sandfort]]'s Dutch, long-term research study of mutually-willing man/boy sexual contact, published in English as ''The sexual aspect of paedosexual relations: The experiences of 25 boys with men'' (1981, English edition 1st reprint 1983).<ref>''Pädosexuelle Erlebnisse: Aus einer Untersuchung der Reichsuniversität Utrecht über Sexualität in pädophilen Beziehungen''</ref> It was published by the German family planning/sex ed organization ''[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Familia_(Deutschland) Pro Familia]''. 

Anglophone readers may also see a 1987 contribution, ''New research into the Greek institution of pederasty'', in "Homosexuality: Which Homosexuality?", a one-off publication emerging from the International Scientific Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies, Amsterdam.<ref>[https://id.annas-archive.org/md5/dd25b0d3fc0960da1ad012b075c012d2 ''New research into the Greek institution of pederasty'', in "Homosexuality: Which Homosexuality?"], a one-off publication emerging from the International Scientific Conference on Gay and Lesbian Studies, Amsterdam.</ref>

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