Those 50’s Psychiatrists (Ch11 Peiss -Spring Break)
In this crazy ‘50s age of scientia sexualis, where the dichotomy of the “abnormal” and “normal” sex was being both solidified and challenged (and where fear of the “abnormal” was overwhelming the mainstream), it was important for psychiatrists to advance new theories. Some of them were quack-ish in their alarmist nature, like Ch. 11’s doc 5 author, Fredric Wertham, a psychiatrist who centers his sex theories on subliminal pop-culture – “Only someone ignorant of the fundamentals of psychiatry and psychopathology of sex can fail to realize a subtle atmosphere of homoeroticism which pervades the adventures of the mature Batman and his young friend Robin” (Peiss 179).
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