{{Short description|Swedish psychiatrist and sexologist (born 1935)}} {{Infobox person | name = Lars Ullerstam | image = | caption = | birth_name = Lars Gustaf Adolf Ullerstam | birth_place = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1935|04|22}} <ref name="Ratsit" /> | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = Psychiatrist, sexologist, researcher, author | alma_mater = | website = }}
'''Lars Gustaf Adolf Ullerstam''' (born April 22, 1935)<ref name="Ratsit">{{cite web |title=Lars Ullerstam (88 år) Västra Frölunda |url=https://www.ratsit.se/19350422-Lars_Gustaf_Adolf_Ullerstam_Vastra_Frolunda/uqCT5dYg02BOoeE0Nc14S4j5FQUq7fAk4S487Xt7dXk |website=Ratsit |access-date=24 February 2024 |language=sv-se}}</ref> in Vanersborg, Sweden, is a psychiatrist, sexologist, and author best known for his 1964 book, ''De erotiska minoritertena'' (released in the United States in 1966 under the title, ''The Erotic Minorities.'')<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Ellis |first=Albert |date=1966 |title=Review of The Erotic Minorities |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/349894 |journal=Journal of Marriage and Family |volume=28 |issue=3 |pages=378 |doi=10.2307/349894 |jstor=349894 |issn=0022-2445|url-access=subscription }}</ref> In Sweden, Ullerstam was one of the most influential figures arguing for sexual liberation of the 1960s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Haraldsdotter |first=Ylva |title=Sju perspektiv på våldäkt (Seven perspectives on rape (en)) |url=https://www.nck.uu.se/kunskapsbanken/sokresultat-kunskapsbanken/?id=238&librisId=11881616&swepubId= |access-date=2024-01-28 |website=www.nck.uu.se |language=sv}}</ref> The book, as of 2015, had been translated into 8 languages.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Kulick |first1=Don |title=Loneliness and its opposite: sex, disability, and the ethics of engagement |last2=Rydström |first2=Jens |date=2015 |publisher=Duke University Press |isbn=978-0-8223-5821-3 |location=Durham London}}</ref>
== The Erotic Minorities == ''The Erotic Minorities'' argued against the concept of perversion as a category.<ref name=":0" /> While he defended homosexuality, most of the content of his book centered around other sexual practices and desires, such as pedophilia, zoophilia, prostitution, necrophilia, and BDSM.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite book |last=Elliott |first=Neil |title=Sensuality in Scandinavia |publisher=Weybright and Talley |year=1970 |location=New York}}</ref> Ullerstam argued for state-backed brothels as mental health care, claiming that framing prostitution in this way would create "sexual Samaritans" who would staff the brothels.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fleisher |first=Frederic |title=The New Sweden: The Challenge of a Disciplined Democracy |publisher=David McKay Co |year=1967 |isbn=9780679501428}}</ref> He accepted the criminalization of pedophilia, but did not believe that it was possible for pedophiles to repress their desires and believed that it was only conditioning that made pedophilia wrong.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Svanberg |first=Mikael |date=2023-01-09 |title=The Legalisation of Child Pornography in Sweden and What Followed (1969-1999). |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jfs67 |access-date=2024-01-28 |doi=10.31235/osf.io/jfs67 }}</ref> Ullerstam also argued against the restriction of pornography.<ref name=":1" />
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