The Sexology and Development: Exploring the Global History of the Sexual Sciences conference, held in Barcelona in October 2018 has resulted in a Special Issue of the History of the Human Sciences, edited by Chiara Beccalossi, Kate Fisher and Jana Funke.

It includes an Introduction, ‘Sexology and development’  written by Chiara Beccalossi, Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, and an article by Kate Fisher and Jana Funke, ‘All the progressive forms of life are built up on the attraction of sex’: Development and the social function of the sexual instinct in late 19th- and early 20th-century Western European sexology’.