David Oliver Cauldwell

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David Oliver Cauldwell, MD & Sc.D, (17 June 1897 – 30 August 1959) was a prolific and pioneering sexologist, who has been claimed to have coined the term “transsexual”^[1]^[2] (though there is a prior claim for Hirschfeld^[3]), and many of whose monographs on sex, psychology, or health were published by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius in such forms as Little Blue Books.

Cauldwell was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a surgeon. Cauldwell reports himself as from childhood having had a special interest in sexual anatomy. He studied medicine at the Chester College of Medicine and Surgery (later merged with Loyola University Chicago) and at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. After several years as a private general practitioner, Cauldwell became an Associate Medical Officer of the Department of War, and as a contract surgeon for the Army, and became a neuro-psychiatrist for the Department of War. In 1945, Cauldwell ended active practice to become a writer on topics of health, notably sexology.

1 Cauldwell and transsexualism
2 References
- 2.1 Footnotes
- 2.2 See also
3 Works
4 External links

[edit] Cauldwell and transsexualism

Although the German term “Transsexualismus” was introduced by Hirschfeld in 1923,^[3] Cauldwell appears to be the first to use the term in direct reference to those who desired a change of physiological sex.^[4]

Cauldwell distinguished “biological sex” from “psychological sex”, and saw the latter as determined by social conditioning. He denied that there were modes of thinking intrinsically linked to male or female biology. Primarily because of this view of gender as plastic, and secondarily because of the limitations of medical science, he regarded sex reassignment surgery as an unacceptable response to transsexualism, and instead advocated that it be treated as a mental disorder (though he advocated acceptance of homosexualism and of transvestism).^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] Footnotes

^ anonymous. “Editorial”, The International Journal of Transgenderism v5 (2001) #2 (April-June).
^ Ekins, Richard; and Dave King. “Pioneers of Transgendering: The Popular Sexology of David O. Cauldwell”, The International Journal of Transgenderism v5 (2001) #2 (April-June).
^ ^a ^b Hirschfeld, Magnus; “Die intersexuelle Konstitution” in Jarhbuch fuer sexuelle Zwischenstufen 1923.
^ ^a ^b Meyerowitz, Joanne Jay; How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States.

[edit] See also

Various publications of Haldeman-Julius which contain a brief biographical sketch of Cauldwell.
Cauldwell, David Oliver. The Diary of a Sexologist: Intimate Observations and Experiences Revealed When a Doctor Tells His Story Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Book B-821 (1949).

[edit] Works

[The titles of the Haldeman-Julius publications were chosen by or at the insistence of Haldeman-Julius, to provoke sales.]

[edit] Haldeman-Julius Little Blue Books

All About Artificial Insemination — How It's Done. The $2,000 Black Market on Babies. Test Tube Babies-Latest Facts. Husbands for Hire. Fathers by Proxy, and a Condensation of Facts Everyone Wants to Know (1947) #1829 (Also Big Blue Book B-532, below.)

[edit] Haldeman-Julius Big Blue Books

What is a Hermaphrodite? A Study of Persons of Either Sex Whose Genital Organs, Mental Integration and Chemical (Hormonal) Characteristics Embrace the Characters or Characteristics of Both Sexes (1947) B-525
Sex and Psycho-Somatology: A Study of the Various Aspects of the Relation of Psycho-Somatic Medicine to Sexuality and Sexual Disorders (1947) B-527
Hypersexuality — Is Anyone Oversexed? Viewpoints of Physiologists, Psychiatrists, and Sociologist on Precocious Sexuality and Nymphomania (1947) B-529
Semen for Sale: All About Artificial Insemination — How It's Done. The $2,000 Black Market on Babies. Test Tube Babies-Latest Facts. Husbands for Hire. Fathers by Proxy, and a Condensation of Facts Everyone Wants to Know (1947) B-532 (Also Little Blue Book 1829, above.)
Effects of Castration on Men and Women. Accidental, Voluntary and Involuntary Castration. Eunuchism and History (1947) (excerpt) B-536
Is Sexual Sterilization Easy? The Surprising Attitude of Doctors — Facts about Sterilization, Including Its Legal Status (1947) B-537
Perverted Haters of Sex: There Are Persons Who Hate Sex Walking Among Us Every Day - A Candid Study of a Strange Perversion (1947) B-538
Why Males Wear Female Attire: Strange Stories, Weird Confessions, Historical Data, and Scientific Explanations of Transvestism (1947) B-540
Sex Crimes Among Juveniles, A study of Various Delinquencies (1947) B-541
The Latest So-Called Miracle Cures for Gonorrhea: Sulfas and Penicillin: Is Prophylaxis Effective? (1947) B-549
The Truth About Homosexuality in Man and Woman: Plain Facts Cleanly Presented to Help Improve Individual and Sociological Concepts (1947) B-557
Ideas which Wreck Marriage Before the Honeymoon Begins (1947) B-558
The Latest So-Called Miracle Cures for Syphilis: Facts about Penicillin &amp Syphilis, Complications and Treatment (1947) B-560
How You Can Become a Practical Psychoanalyst. Workable Applications of Freud, Jung, Stekel and Others Made Easy (1947) B-561
Easy Lessons in Practical Psychoanalysis. A Workable Guide for the Use of Amateurs Who Want to Understand Themselves and Others Better and Thereby Be Happier (1947) B-562
A Modern Analysis of Biblical Sex Scandals: How an Adulterous Old King Disposed of an Unwanted Husband and Other Worldy Affairs, all Based on the Biblical Story of David and Bathsheba, Including Judah's Affair with His Dead Son's Wife, Who Played the Harlot; the Fate of Onan (1947) B-563
Practical Psychiatry for Everyone: How to Be Your Own Mind Doctor and Solve Mental Problems for Yourself and Others (1947) B-571
What Can a Sick Person Believe? A Study of What Is Valid in the New Medical Magic and a Summary of Information for Both the Sick and the Well (1947) B-572
So You're Neurotic! Treatment Possibilities and Treatment Techniques for Men, Women and Children who Feel too Keenly the Emotional Strains of Living (1947) B-573
Husbands and Wives Can Be Satisfactory Lovers: A Guide to the Esthetics of Intimacy, with Hints on How Sex Can Be Beautiful (1947) B-576
What to Know and Do About the Male Climacteric. Advice Which Can Help to Keep Men from Going off the Deep End, Including a Generous Questions and Answers Section (1947) B-586
Treatment of Impotence in Man and Woman (1947) B-587
Sterility in Men and Women: A Study of Causes and Treatment Possibilities For Those Who Are Denied Parenthood (1947) B-589
Schizophrenia and Mental Danger Signals: What to Do about Schizophrenic Tendencies — A Study of Behavior and Mental Disturbances (1947) B-590
What Women Should Know about the Menopause: Prevention of Suffering through an Understanding of the Hygiene of Life's Natural Changes (1947) B-592
What Makes the Neurotic Personality Behave That Way? What Psychiatry Has Learned About Your Reactions to the Anxieties, Conflicts and Strain of Modern Living (1947) B-593
Prostate Gland Diseases and Their Treatment: a Candid Presentation of Fundamentals, Diseases, Hygiene, and Safeguards (1947) B-594
When Are Girls Promiscuous? Lessons in Love’s Physiology, for the Virgin and her sister, with questions and answers (1947) B-596
Why Sex Offenders Act that Way: Psychiatry Shows that Sex Delinquents are Desperately Sick People (1947) B-597
The Problem of Unwed Fathers: A Psychiatric Study of a Difficult Situation, with Sidelights on Unmarried Mothers and So-Called Illegitimate children (1947) B-600
Studies in Psychosexuality: Revealing, Strange and Unusual Sex Complexes, and Remedial Means Which may be Applied (1947) B-603
Sexual Fear Fixation — What to Do about It, How to Banish Personal Fears and thus Overcome Their Damaging Effects (1947) B-609
Doubting Fathers: Psychological and Biological Paternity: Can Science Prove Who Is Whose Father? : The Psychology of Parenthood, with Questions and Answers (1947) B-611
The Psychology of Harmonious Marriage: A Book for the Guidance of Husbands, Hives, Sweethearts and Lovers (1947) B-612
The Relation of the Endocrines and Heredity to Development and Intellect: Facts Concerning Stature of Mind and Body: Some Diseases of the Endocrine Glands (1947) B-615
Sexual Problems and their Psychology: A Sexological Manual of Self-Help, with Questions and Answers, Glossary (1947) B-616
Do You Want to Save Your Marriage? : Answers to Plaintive Pleas from Husbands and Wives (1947) B-617
Should Married Lovers Fight? : Pitfalls and What to Do about Them (1947) B-622
Tranvestists Tell Their Stories, Confessions of Persons Who Prefer to Dress like the Opposite Sex (1947) B-623
Gestation in Man and Animals: A Condensation of Facts on Pregnancy, Development, Reproduction and Specie Perpetuation (1947) B-624
Marital Triangles: A Psychological Presentation of Extra-Marital Affairs (1947) B-627
Health, Personality Appeal, and Sex Harmony: A Candid Discussion of Health and Disease and Their Influence on Personality and the Sex Life (1947) B-630
The Biology, Physiology, and Psychology of Sex: a Simple Presentation of Terms (1947) B-631
Diseases of the Genital and Related Organs: A Urologist's Study of the Genito-Urinary System and of the Important Organs Most Directly Related to this System (1947) B-643
The Nervous System in Disease and Health: A Treatise to Help Laymen to a Better Understanding of the Significance of Neurological Procedures, and the Diseases Such Procedures May Reveal (1947) B-650
Psychoquackery: Why It Enjoys Immunity (1947) B-653
What You Should Know About Caesarean [sic] Operations (1947) B-656
So You Married an Alcoholic? Facts about Alcohol, Alcoholics, Neurosis and Neurotics (1947) B-656
Sex Fallacies Superstitions and Fact (1947) B-660
Your Blood Pressure and What You Should Know about It (1948) B-661
Man and the Sex Impulse: The Nature of Man, His Behavior, Masculinity and Sexual Nature (1948) B-670
Woman and the Sex Impulse: Amazing Power of Tiny Quantities of a Biochemical Substance and Glands that Make It (1948) B-671
The Child and the Sex Impulse: New Knowledge for Parents and Other Adults (1948) B-673
Psychoanalysis: a Candid Study of the Freudian Philosophy — Facts About Freud's Psychology, His Work and the Critics of Sex Theories That Were 50 Years Ahead of Their Time (1948) B-674
Why There Are Orgastic and Other Sexual Cripples (1948) B-676
William Heirens — Notorious Sex Maniac — A Study of Cases and Causes of Sex Crimes and Criminals, and the Tragic Failure of Correctional Institutions (1948) B-677
Why I Am a Nudist: How an Ugly Duckling Became an Accomplished Beauty (1948) B-696
Life in a Nudist Camp, as Told by Sarge Blank to D.O. Caldwell, M.D. (1948) B-697
Now that You are Middle-Aged (1948) B-699
How to be a Midwife: A Book for Midwives, Parents and Others Who May Be Called Upon to Assist in Emergency Childbirth (1948) B-701
Menus for the 18-Day Reducing Diet: Including Alternate Menus for the First Ten Days, with Dietetic Tables, and Dietetic and Health Advice (1948) B-704
Petting as an Erotic Exercise: A Study of the Significance and Techniques of Pre-Coital Play (1948) B-712
Premature Ejaculation — What To Do about It: Study of a Condition Common Among Men of All Ages, With Corrective Methods and Reasons Why They Work (1948) B-728
The Folly of So-Called Sexual Conservation: A Study of the Damaging Theories or Superstitions Concerning Sexual Activities, and the Knowledge that Leads to Sex Power through Understanding (1948) B-729
Sexual Stimulation and Response (1948) B-731
Bisexuality in Patterns of Human Behavior: A Study of Individuals Who Indulge in Both Heterosexual and Homosexual Practices, with Comparative Data on Hermaphrodites, the Human Intersex (1948) B-732
Dietetics — An Encyclopedia of Healthful, Helpful Knowledge (1948) B-735
Nocturnal Emissions: A Study of Wet Dreams: A Searching Inquiry Revealing the Truth about a Natural and Normal Phenomenon (1948) B-736
Animal Contacts: A Study of the Prevalence, Psychology and Social Significance of a Little Understood Form of Sexual Behavior (1948) B-737
Sexual Athletes: A Study of high Frequencies of Sexual Activity, with Comparative Data on Sexual Outlets, Including Explanations and Case (1947) B-739
Aims of the Various Systems of Medicine (1948) B-742
Psoriasis and other Skin Diseases: The Most Puzzling of All Diseases and What To Do About Them (1948) B-743
Health Psychology: Attitudes and Facts Concerning Health and Various Diseases, Including Heart Disease, Cancer, etc. (1948) B-744
Nudism and the Truth about Nudists: An Explanation of Various Aspects of Social Nudism, Including an Exhaustive Criticism of the Kinsey Report on Nudity (1948) B-747
Giantism, Dwarfism, Cretinism and Mongolism (1948) B-748
Sex Practices in Marriage — Truth versus Falsity: Case Histories as Related by Married People of Their Own Volition, with Interpretations and Comments (1948) B-749
Positive and Negative Blood: The Rhesus Factor (1948) B-750
Fetishism — How it Manifests Itself: A Study of Eccentricity in its Sexual, Psychopathological, and Other Aspects (1948) B-770
Male Homosexuals Tell their Stories: Facts Revealed by Men Unafraid to Tell the Truth, with Comment and Scientific Interpretations by the Author (1948) B-771
Exhibitionism — How it Manifests Itself: The Natural and the Anti-Social Significance of a Universal Practice, with Sidelights on Its Analogue, Voyeurism (1948) B-774
Female Homosexuals — Lesbians — Tell Their Stories, The truth Concerning their Sexual Natures as Revealed by Courageous Women, with Comment and Interpretation by the Author (1947) B-776
Female Sex Habits: A Candid Study of the Sex and Love Life of American Women (1948) B-786
Voyeurism — A Form of Sexual Behavior: A Critical Study of a Natural Trait That Has Been Given an Erroneous Meaning (1948) B-787
The Strange Story of the Human Egg: The Psychological and Sociological Factors Involved in Human Reproduction (1949) B-791
Technique of Courtship and Marriage (1949) B-794
Unconventional Modes of Sexual Expression: A Study of the Value of Adjustment and the Futility of Punishment of Polysexualists and Sex Variants in Modern Society (1949) B-796
The Sexually Contented Tell Their Stories, Experiences of People Who Have Found their Way to Sexual Happiness (1949) B-800
Advice to the Love-Hungry and Lonely (1949) B-816
Why Be a Nudist? The Intelligent, Delightful and Uninhibited May Be Nudists Just for Fun, or the Hell of It (1949) B-817
How not to be Love-Starved (1949) B-819
Revelations of a Sexologist: Intimate Facts That May Parallel Your Experiences (1949) B-820
The Diary of a Sexologist: Intimate Observations and Experiences Revealed When a Doctor Tells His Story (1949) B-821
The Art of Preserving One's Manhood (1949) B-822
Private Letters from Homosexuals to a Doctor (1949) B-823
Can There Be Love Without Danger? (1949) B-824
What's Wrong with Transvestism? A Compilation of the Diaries of Transvestists as Revealed to the Author, with Letters and Day-by-Day Events from the Lives of Those Who Prefer to Wear the Clothing of the Opposite Sex (1949) B-825
The One-Shot Cure For Syphilis And Gonorrhea: The Latest Facts About This New Approach, How It Came About, What It Is and How It Works Including Some Angles The Professors And Moralists Have Over-Looked (1949) B-827
Why Wives Are Wallflowers (1949) B-829
Wallflower Husbands (1949) B-830
The Truth About Sex Stimulants (1949) B-831
The Intimate Embrace: Some Uncommon Facts About a Natural Function. Is It Dangerous to Prolong, or Not to Prolong Sexual Intercourse? What is the Pop-Fly Embrace? How Dangerous are Excesses? What is, or is Not, Ethical or Propitious? Polytechnics? (1949) B-838
Oddities of Sexual Behavior: Research Reveals Significant Data Covering the Eccentricities of Human Conduct, and Augmented by a Study of Sexual Behavior in the Lower Mammals and Other Forms of Life (1949) B-840
Stammering, Stuttering and Personality Vargaries: You May Stammer, Stutter, or Commit Numerous Vargaries Without Being Aware of It. Eccentricities of Speech May Be Sex-Connected. If You Speak, Play Music, Read, Write, Type, or Associate with Other Human Beings This Booklet Was Written for You (1946) B-842
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of the Married (1949) B-843
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and the Sexual Problems of the Human Male (1949) B-844
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and the Sexual Problems of the Human Female (1949) B-845
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of Unmarried Adults (1949) B-846
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and the Sexual Problems of the Aged (1949) B-847
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of Homosexuals of Both Sexes (1949) B-848
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of Transvestites: An Exhaustive, Revealing, Surprising, Informative, Educational, Entertaining and Even Shocking Encyclopedic Compilation of Seldom-Suspected Facts (1950) B-853
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of Adolescents (1950) B-855
Questions and Answers on the Sex Life and Sexual Problems of Trans-Sexuals: Trans-Sexuals Are Individuals of One Sex and Appaently Psychologically of the Opposite Sex. Trans-Sexuals Include Heterosexuals, Homosexuals, Bisexuals and Others. A Large Element of Transvestites Have Trans-Sexual Leanings. (1950) B-856
Questions and Answers about the Problems of the Sexually Diseased (1950) B-857
Questions and Answers on the Causes and Treatment of Rectal and Related Diseases (1950) B-858
Questions and Answers on Sex and Age Disparity (1950) B-859
Questions and Answers on Domestic Relations and Their Management (1950) B-860
Questions and Answers Involving Sexual Ethics and Sexual Esthetics (1950) B-861
Questions and Answers on Sex and History (1950) B-866
Questions and Answers on Sex Physique Disparity: Are Males and Females Critically Mismatched in Their Genital Proportions? (1950) B-867
Questions and Answers about the Male Hormone and Male Hormone Therapy (1950) B-868
Questions and Answers about Sex and Medicine (1950) B-869
Questions and Answers on Sex and the American Attitude (1950) B-870
Questions and Answers about Cunnilingus (1950) B-871
Questions and Answers about Pornography (1950) B-872
Questions and Answers on the Relation of Literature to Sex (1950) B-874
Undinism: a Study of a Bizarre but Not Unnatural Eccentricity Involving a Sexual Interest in Urine, Urination, Seeing Others Urinate, etc. (1950) B-875
Questions and Answers about Oragenital Contacts: A Compilation of Data Showing What Oragenitalists, Including Fellatorists, Cunnilinguists, and Others, Think of Their Critics with Halitosis (1950) B-876
Questions and Answers about Transvestism in Disguise: Transvestism is a National Popular Eccentricity and Some Transvestists Appear to Be the Last to Find it Out (1950) B-880
Transvestists' Unexpurgated Letters: Intimate Letters Written to a Doctor with the Request that They Be Published as Written by Cross-Dressers (1950) B-882
Questions and Answers about Sexual Art and Photography: Sex Art and Blackmail. Critics Destroy the Beautiful. Cops and Judges Like Sexy Art. Miniature Semi-Nude Beauty in a Fishbowl. Girlie Art, etc. (1950) B-884
Questions and Answers on Undinism (1950) B-885
Is Anyone Sexually Normal? Directions for Finding a Dependable Key to Sexual Normality and Abnormality (1950) 903
Now You Can Have a Happy Marriage — Barriers Heretofore Branding Various Acts of Love as Perverse and Immoral Now Removed with Church Approval (1951) 917
Sex Transmutation — Can One’s Sex Be Changed? There’s but a Thin Genetic Line between the Sexes, but the Would-Be Transmutee Battles Forces More Stubborn than the Genes (1951) B-932
Can You Become a Parent?: Facts about Parenthood, Genetics and the Philosophy of Parenthood Every Adult Male and Female Should Know (1951) B-933