Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg

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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 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.

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The second of these was published in English in 1988, in Paidika: The Journal of Paedophilia, as "The Paedophile Impulse: Toward the Development of an Etiology of Child-Adult Sexual Contacts from an Ethological and Ethnological Perspective". One commentator described the article as "probably the most interdisciplinarian scholarly approach to paedophilia ever published". In the journal's 1992 special issue on Intergenerational Lesbianism, she is interviewed on the topic by feminist activist/researcher Marjan Sax.

In 1990, she published "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. As an 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 Theo Sandfort's first preliminary report to his long-term Dutch research study, examining ongoing mutually-willing man/boy sexual contact. The volume was published in English as The sexual aspect of paedosexual relations: The experiences of 25 boys with men (1981, English edition 1st reprint 1983), with its German edition being published by the German family planning/sex ed organization Pro Familia.

Anglophone readers may also wish to 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.