William J. Robinson

William Josephus Robinson (December 8, 1867 – January 6, 1936) was an American physician, sexologist and birth control advocate.

He was Chief of the department of Genito-Urinary Diseases at Bronx Hospital Dispensary, and editor of the American Journal of Urology and Sexology.

[1] Robinson was active in the birth control movement in the United States.

[2] He was "the first American physician to demand that contraceptive knowledge be taught to medical students and [...] probably the most influential and popular of the American physicians writing on birth control in the first three decades of the twentieth century".

[3] As well as his own medical writings, Robinson edited the works of the pioneering pediatrician Abraham Jacobi.