Robert Latou Dickinson
Holding the two sides of the wound together and some internal organs inside, Dickinson dragged himself to shore; his injury was stitched by a lay person, but it took a long time to heal and a scar remained for the rest of his life.
He attended the Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute and schools in Germany and Switzerland, sketching and studying classical art all the time.
[citation needed] In the 1920s, he closed his practice and focused on sexual research and contraception, and other public health education.
Physiology is teaching us that we are all in some degree bisexual and that we possess some sex traits other than those characteristics of our overt type, with two series of stages between extreme masculinity and complete femininity."
He studied the coital interaction, published his research, and debunked sexual myths such as that the penis and cervix would interlock during human copulation.
[citation needed] Dickinson believed that in finding the sources, he might be able to intervene and prevent homosexual desire from manifesting as a social problem.
[1] Their Birth Series, depicting the processes of gestation and delivery, was displayed to crowds at the 1939 New York World's Fair,[1]: 7–18 and copies of the sculptures were distributed world-wide.
[6] In addition to numerous published medical drawings, he made thousands of sketches of places, trees, vistas, figures, and boats, notably in parks, on mountain trails, at Squam Lake in New Hampshire, and in China.
He also worked for many hours a week, improving hiking trails at Squam and helping friends and family with outdoor projects.
[citation needed] Dickinson and his wife and family walked and hiked, sailed and canoed all over the world, in China, in Europe, in Washington DC (where he was briefly Acting Surgeon General), on Squam Lake, and in New York City.
[citation needed] A man of deep Episcopalian faith,[1]: 24 he was associated with the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brooklyn[1]: 24 for more than fifty years, before he moved to Manhattan.
It comprises over 200 medical models, including Normman and Norma, intended to represent the average American man and woman.
[8][9] The Birth Series was on public display for decades at the Boston Museum of Science, but its current location and status are unknown as of 2023[update].
