This article challenges the widely held belief that early-20th-century England was one of the most sexually repressed countries in the Western world. Late Victorian physicians discussing sexual diseases and dysfunctions were granted immunity from prosecution if their publications were sold through a recognized medical publisher only to Members of the Medical, Legal and Clerical Professions. It was assumed that those same constraints applied to publications concerning the psychology of the sexual life (sexology). In 1908, Rebman Limited, a well-known medical publisher, advertised Eden Paul's (1908) translation of Iwan Bloch's The Sexual Life of Our Time (hereafter, "Sexual Life") without any restrictions. Although a magistrate ruled the book obscene, the U.K. Home Office allowed republication on condition that its sale was strictly limited. The Rebman case reveals how the U.K. Home Office tried to police the new science of sexology by limiting its circulation, not censoring its content. Despite these restrictions, Sexual Life circulated among lay readers, thereby inviting further research into how even "censored" material shaped debates on sexual, social, and political reform. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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我们这个时代的性生活：20世纪初英国的医学审查制度。

本文对普遍认为20世纪初英国是西方世界上性压抑最多的国家之一的观念提出了挑战。如果维多利亚时代的晚期讨论性疾病和功能障碍的医生的出版物仅通过公认的医学出版商出售给医学，法律和文书专业的成员，则可以免于起诉。假定那些相同的限制适用于有关性生活心理学（性学）的出版物。1908年，著名的医学出版商Rebman Limited在广告上毫无限制地刊登了伊登·保罗（Eden Paul）（1908年）译自伊万·布洛赫（Iwan Bloch）的《我们时代的性生活》（以下简称“性生活”）。尽管有治安法官裁定该书淫秽，但英国 内政部允许重新出售，但要严格限制其销售。Rebman案揭示了英国内政部如何通过限制流通而不是审查其内容来监管新的性学。尽管有这些限制，“性生活”还是在普通读者中传播，从而邀请人们进一步研究“审查”材料如何塑造有关性，社会和政治改革的辩论。（PsycINFO数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。