Liu Dalin

{{Short description|Professor of sociology (1932–2022)}}

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Liu Dalin, also sometimes Dalin Liu or Ta-lin Liu, ({{zh|c=刘达临}}; 2 June 1932 – 17 December 2022) was a Chinese professor of sociology at Shanghai University, who pioneered the field of sexology.

Liu was born on 2 June 1932.{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uLYoAQAAIAAJ&q=%E5%88%98%E8%BE%BE%E4%B8%B4+1932%E5%B9%B46%E6%9C%882%E6%97%A5 | title=情色文化史: 性的解放與禁錮 : 從雜交、春宫到房中術 | author1=劉達臨 | year=2004 | publisher=八方出版社 | isbn=978-957-29245-4-9 |language=zh }} In 1989–90, he helped conduct a nationwide survey on sexual behavior and attitudes in China, not unlike the Kinsey Report in the United States. A report on the survey's outcomes was first published in 1992 in Shanghai; in 1997 Liu published the English edition Sexual Behavior in Modern China ({{ISBN|0-8264-0886-9}}). Also in 1997, he opened China's first sex museum in Shanghai; it has since moved to Tongli.

Liu won the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for his research in sexology in 1994.

Liu published several books on the history of erotica in China:

• History of Erotica in China (2004), People's Daily Press, {{ISBN|7-80153-776-9}}, {{in lang|zh}}.
• Pictorial History of Erotica.
• World Sex Culture (2005), China Friendship Press, {{ISBN|7-5057-2110-0}}, {{in lang|zh}}.

Liu died on 17 December 2022, at the age of 90.[https://c.m.163.com/news/a/HOUPJMQB0514R9P4.html 著名性学专家、上海大学社会系教授刘达临逝世，享年90岁] {{in lang|zh}}