# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-laqueur
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:38:25.565Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/thomas-w-laqueur"
name: "Thomas W. Laqueur"
slug: "thomas-w-laqueur"
description: "Thomas Walter Laqueur is an American historian, sexologist and writer. He is the author of Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation and Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud as well as many articles and reviews. He is the winner of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's 2007 Distinguished Achievement Award, and is currently the Helen Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, located in Berkeley, California. Laqueur was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2015."
tagline: "Sexologist and historian"
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country:
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birthDate: "1945-09-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump