Oscar Rotter

Oscar Rotter (b. 21 July, 1865), also with the German spelling Oskar Rotter, was a German-born New York physician and proponent of free love and contraception. Rotter's books included The Sexes and Love in Freedom and Jealousy, the Foe of Freedom,[1] and he published articles on free love, rebutting the views of Lucy Parsons.[2] Rotter was also a driving force in the medico-economic movement, an early effort to address the economic pressures on the medical profession and pharmaceutical industry.[3]

  1. ^ See ads in Dora Forster's Sex Radicalism: As Seen by an Emancipated Woman of the New Time (Chicago, 1905), pp. 59 and 60 online.
  2. ^ Carolyn Ashbaugh, Lucy Parsons: American Revolutionary (Charles H. Kerr, 1976), pp. 203–206.
  3. ^ Oscar Rotter, "The Economic Problem as It Affects the Medical Profession," The Medico-Pharmaceutical Critic and Guide (January 1912), pp. 22–26 online.