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

Birth control

Birth control is an umbrella term for several techniques and methods used to prevent fertilization or to interrupt pregnancy at various stages. Birth control techniques and methods include contraception , contragestion and abortion...

 campaigner. 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".

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

Abraham Jacobi

Abraham Jacobi was a pioneer of pediatrics, opening the first children's clinic in the United States. To date, he is the only foreign born president of the American Medical Association.-Biography:...

. He was also a freethinking critic of Christianity.

Works

• (ed.) Dr. Jacobi's works. Collected essays, addresses, scientific papers and miscellaneous writings of A. Jacobi, 1909
• Never-told tales,1909
• (with Leo Jacobi and others) Sex morality: past present and future, 1912. Online here. Reviewed by Horace Traubel, The Conservator 23:73 (July 1912).
• Sexual problems of today, 1912. Reviewed by Horace Traubel, The Conservator 23:139 (November 1912).
• 'Walt Whitman
  Walt Whitman
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   and sex', The Conservator 24:53 (June 1913).
• A practical treatise on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of sexual impotence and other sexual disorders in men and women, 1913
• The treatment of gonorrhea and its complications in men and women, for the general practitioner, 1915
• Fewer and better babies, birth control; or, The limitation of offspring by prevenception, 1916
• Woman: her sex and love life, 1917
• Sexual truths versus sexual lies, misconceptions and exaggerations, 1919
• A doctor's view on life, 1927. Edited by Eden
  Eden Paul
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   and Cedar Paul
  Cedar Paul
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• Sex, love and morality : a rational code of sexual ethics based upon the highest principle of morality--the principle of human happiness; the last word on the subject, 1928
• Practical prevenception; or, The technique of birth control; giving the latest methods of prevention of conception, discussing their effect, favorable or unfavorable, on the sex act; their indications and contra-indications, pointing out the reasons for failures and how to avoid them. For the medical profession only, 1929
• The oldest profession in the world; prostitution, its underlying causes, its treatment and its future, 1929
• If I were God: a freethinker's faith, incorporating a discussion between the author and a Catholic priest, New York: The Freethought Press Association, 1930. With an introduction by Harry Elmer Barnes
  Harry Elmer Barnes
  Harry Elmer Barnes was a prominent American historian in the 20th century. A "progressive who had some classical liberal impulses," he was associated for virtually his entire career with Columbia University.-Early career:...
  
  . Online at the Internet Archive
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• Soviet Russia as I saw it; its crimes and stupidities, 1932
• Happiness and how to attain it, 1933
• Medical and sex dictionary, 1933
• The law against abortion; its perniciousness demonstrated and its repeal demanded, 1933
• Our mysterious life glands and how they affect us. A popular treatise on our glands and their secretions - what they do to us, how they affect our health, growth, appearance, temper, mentality, and character; including the vitamins, 1934