%0 Journal Article 
%A Vázquez García, Francisco
%T La patologización del celibato en la medicina española (1820-1920)
%D 2018
%@ 0210-4466
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10498/20928
%X In the Spain of the Restoration, the naturalist novel and the anticlerical press insisted that the main cause of the sexual
depravity of priests was the vow of chastity. To what extent the technologies of knowledge and medical power of the time allowed to
defend that thesis? This is the issue addressed in the article. First, we examine the enlightened background of the hygienist offensive
against sexual celibacy. Secondly, the controversy raised by Monlau with his hygienic defense of sexual chastity is analyzed. The arguments of Monlau take place in a context of propaganda in favor of celibacy raised by the Spanish Catholic Church. Third, the medical
arguments that causally connected absolute continence with sexual deviations, particularly “pederasty”, are explored. Finally, we indicate the circumstances that, at the beginning of the 20th century, led to reactivate the medical defense of sexual abstinence among
young people, announcing a new pattern of masculinity

%K higiene sexual
%K castidad
%K celibato
%K anticlericalismo
%K España
%K siglo XIX
%~ Universidad de Cádiz