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Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
, medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
, statistics
Statistics

Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
, epidemiology
Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine....
, pedagogics, sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
, anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
, and criminology
Criminology

Criminology is the social science approach to the study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. Criminological research areas include the incidence and forms of crime as well as its causes and consequences....
. It studies sexual development
Sexual development

Sexual development is the process by which an immature and sterile organism develops the capacity to reproduce. In humans, this process is called puberty....
 and the development of sexual relationships as well as the mechanics of sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
 and sexual malfunction. It also documents the sexualities of special groups, such as handicapped, children, and elderly
Geriatric sexology

Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of Human sexuality in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias and disorders of or relating to sex and the sex organs....
, and studies sexual pathologies such as sex addiction and child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which a child is abused for the sexual gratification of an adult or older adolescent. In addition to direct sexual activity, child sexual abuse also occurs when an adult Indecent exposure to a child, asks or pressures a child to engage in sexual activities, displays pornography to a child, or us...
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Sexology is the study of sexual interests, behavior, and function. In modern sexology, researchers apply tools from several academic fields, including biology
Biology

Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
, medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
, psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
, statistics
Statistics

Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
, epidemiology
Epidemiology

Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine....
, pedagogics, sociology
Sociology

Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
, anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
, and criminology
Criminology

Criminology is the social science approach to the study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. Criminological research areas include the incidence and forms of crime as well as its causes and consequences....
. It studies sexual development
Sexual development

Sexual development is the process by which an immature and sterile organism develops the capacity to reproduce. In humans, this process is called puberty....
 and the development of sexual relationships as well as the mechanics of sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse

Sexual intercourse, also known as copulation or coitus, commonly refers to the act in which the Penis enters the Vagina. The two entities may be of opposite sexes or not, or they may be hermaphrodite, as is the case with snails....
 and sexual malfunction. It also documents the sexualities of special groups, such as handicapped, children, and elderly
Geriatric sexology

Geriatric sexology is the systematic study of Human sexuality in the elderly. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including attempting to characterise "normal sexuality" and its variants, including paraphilias and disorders of or relating to sex and the sex organs....
, and studies sexual pathologies such as sex addiction and child sexual abuse
Child sexual abuse

Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse in which a child is abused for the sexual gratification of an adult or older adolescent. In addition to direct sexual activity, child sexual abuse also occurs when an adult Indecent exposure to a child, asks or pressures a child to engage in sexual activities, displays pornography to a child, or us...
. Sexology is often been the subject of controversy when its research findings contradict the philosophical
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 or sacred beliefs of others.

History


A number of ancient sex manual
Sex manual

Sex manuals are books which explain how to perform sexual intercourse and other sexual practices. They often also feature advice on birth control, as well as advice on sexual relationships....
s exist, including Ovid
Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso was a Roman Empire poet known as Ovid to the English language-speaking world, who wrote about love, seduction, and Roman mythology transformation....
's Ars Amatoria
Ars Amatoria

file:Ovid Ars Amatoria 1644.jpgThe Ars amatoria is a poem in three books by the Roman poet Ovid. It claims to provide teaching in three areas of general preoccupation: how and where to find women in Rome, how to seduce them, and how to prevent others from stealing them....
, the Kama Sutra
Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra , , is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the India scholar Vatsyayana....
 of Vatsyayana
Vatsyayana

Mallanaga Vatsyayana is the name of an Indian philosophy in the Vedic period tradition who lived some time in the Gupta Empire period . His name appears as the author of the Kama Sutra and of Nyaya Sutra Bhashya, the first commentary on Gotama's Nyaya Sutras....
, the Ananga Ranga
Ananga Ranga

The Ananga Ranga or Kamaledhiplava is an Indian sex manual written by Kalyana malla in the 1400s or 1500s century AD. The poet wrote the work in honor of Lad Khan, son of Ahmed Khan Lodi....
 and The Perfumed Garden for the Soul's Recreation
The Perfumed Garden

The Perfumed Garden by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Nafzawi is a sex manual and work of erotic literature. The full title of the book is The Perfumed Garden of Sensual Delight ....
. However, none of these treat sex as the subject of a formal field of scientific or medical research.

One of the earliest sex researchers prior to the 20th century sexology movement was Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing was an Austria-Germany sexology and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis , a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity....
, whose book Psychopathia Sexualis, published in 1886, recorded a dizzying array of sexual anomalies.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
 developed a theory of sexuality based on his studies of his clients. Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual Neurosis symptoms....
 and Otto Gross
Otto Gross

Otto Gross was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community....
, were disciples of Freud, but rejected by him because of their emphasis of the role of sexuality for the revolutionary struggle for the emancipation of mankind.

Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld

Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and early gay rights advocate....
 founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
Institut für Sexualwissenschaft

The Institut f?r Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality....
 (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin
Berlin

Berlin is the Capital of Germany city and one of sixteen States of Germany of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is the country's largest city....
 in 1919. When the Nazis took power, one of their first actions, on May 8, 1933, was to destroy the Institute and burn the library.

In 1947, Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Charles Kinsey , was an United States biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University , now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction....
 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city and the county seat of Monroe County, Indiana in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. According to the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 69,291 and its Bloomington, Indiana metropolitan area had a population of 175,506....
, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to The Kinsey Institute, exists "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction"....
.

Masters and Johnson
Masters and Johnson

The Masters and Johnson scientific research, made up of William Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s....
 released their works Human Sexual Response in 1966 and Human Sexual Inadequacy in 1970. Their books sold well, and they were founders of what became to be known as the Masters & Johnson Institute in 1978.

Fritz Klein
Fritz Klein

Fred Klein was an United States Human sexuality, Psychiatry, inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and author. He was also a pioneering bisexual civil rights activist, who was an important figure in the modern Gay rights....
 developed the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
Klein Sexual Orientation Grid

The Klein Sexual Orientation Grid attempts to further measure sexual orientation by expanding upon the earlier Kinsey scale which categorizes sexual history from 0 to 6 ....
 a multi-dimensional system for describing complex sexual orientation, similar to the Kinsey scale
Kinsey scale

File:Kinsey Scale.gifThe Kinsey scale attempts to describe a person's sexual history or episodes of their sexual activity at a given time. It uses a scale from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to 6, meaning exclusively homosexual....
, but measuring seven different vectors of sexual orientation
Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation refers to "an enduring pattern of emotional, romantic, and/or sexual attractions to men, women, or both sexes." According to the American Psychological Association, "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of...
 and identity
Sexual identity

Sexual identity is a term that, like sex, has two distinctively different meanings. One describes an identity roughly based on sexual orientation, the other an identity based on sexual characteristics, which is not socially based but based on biology, a concept related to, but different from, gender identity....
 separately, and allowing for change over time. In 1978 Klein
Fritz Klein

Fred Klein was an United States Human sexuality, Psychiatry, inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and author. He was also a pioneering bisexual civil rights activist, who was an important figure in the modern Gay rights....
 published The Bisexual Option, a groundbreaking psychological study of bisexuality
Bisexuality

Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or physical attraction to people of both genders , or a bisexual orientation. People who have a bisexual orientation "can experience sexual attraction, emotional, and affectional attraction to both their own sex and the opposite sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social i...
 and in 1998, he founded the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB)
American Institute of Bisexuality

The American Institute of Bisexuality, also known as the Bisexual Foundation, is a Charitable organization founded by sexuality researcher Fritz Klein to promote research and education about bisexuality....
 to encourage, support and assist research and education about bisexuality
Bisexuality

Bisexuality refers to sexual behavior with or physical attraction to people of both genders , or a bisexual orientation. People who have a bisexual orientation "can experience sexual attraction, emotional, and affectional attraction to both their own sex and the opposite sex"; "it also refers to an individual?s sense of personal and social i...
.

The late Vern Bullough
Vern Bullough

'Vern Leroy Bullough' was an United States historian and sexologist.He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York , an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past dean of natural and social sciences at the Buffalo Stat...
 was a historian of sexology, as well as a researcher in the field.

Interdisciplinary relations and limits


Sexology, as currently defined, is largely a 20th and 21st century phenomenon.

Sexology relates to a number of other fields of study:
  • several fields of medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
    , including andrology
    Andrology

    Andrology is the medicine that deals with male health, particularly relating to the problems of the male reproductive system and urology problems that are unique to men....
    , gynaecology
    Gynaecology

    Gynaecology or gynecology refers to the surgical specialty dealing with health of the female sex organ . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"....
    , and the anatomy
    Anatomy

    Anatomy is a branch of biology that is the consideration of the body plan. It is a general term that includes human anatomy, animal anatomy and plant anatomy ....
     of the sex organs
  • the psychology
    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
    , sociology
    Sociology

    Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
    , and anthropology
    Anthropology

    Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
     of sexual behavior
  • neuroscience
    Neuroscience

    Neuroscience is a field devoted to the scientific study of the nervous system. The Society for Neuroscience was founded in 1969, but the study of the brain started a long time ago....
     can be used to study many basic sexual reflexes, and is increasingly relevant to studying more complex sexual preferences and behaviors
  • psychiatry
    Psychiatry

    Psychiatry is a Medicine Specialty devoted to the Treatment of mental disorders, Biomedical research and Prevention of mental disorder. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808....
     studies paraphilia
    Paraphilia

    Paraphilia refers to powerful and persistent sexual interest other than in copulatory or precopulatory behavior with phenotype normal, consenting adult human partners....
    , as well as disorders of sexual behavior when they impact on clinical conditions or reach a point where they become dysfunction
    Dysfunction

    Dysfunction can refer to:* in psychology, an abnormality* in social psychology, a dysfunctional family or group* in sociology, a dysfunction ...
    al or sources of psychological difficulty.
  • many aspects of sexual behavior are or have been regulated by law
    LAW

    LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
     in various jurisdictions, and various classes of sexual offences are studied by criminology
    Criminology

    Criminology is the social science approach to the study of crime as an individual and social phenomenon. Criminological research areas include the incidence and forms of crime as well as its causes and consequences....
  • biology
    Biology

    Biology is a branch of the natural sciences concerned with the study of living organisms and their interaction with each other and their environment ....
     (general) and ethology
    Ethology

    Ethology is the scientific study of animal behavior, and a branch of zoology .Although many naturalists have studied aspects of animal behavior through the centuries, the modern discipline of ethology is usually considered to have arisen with the work in the 1930s of Dutch biologist Nikolaas Tinbergen and Austrian biologist Konrad Lorenz,...
     (behavioral) study the sexual behavior of other animals, which can be compared with human sexual behavior
  • the techniques of evolutionary biology
    Evolutionary biology

    Evolutionary biology is a sub-field of biology concerned with the origin of species from a common descent and descent of species, as well as their evolution, multiplication and diversity over time....
     can be brought to bear on the causes of sexual behavior
  • the epidemiology
    Epidemiology

    Epidemiology is the study of factors affecting the health and illness of populations, and serves as the foundation and logic of interventions made in the interest of public health and preventive medicine....
     of sexually transmitted disease
    Sexually transmitted disease

    A sexually transmitted disease , also known as sexually transmitted infection or venereal disease , is an illness that has a significant probability of transmission between humans or animals by means of sexual contact, including sexual intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex....
    s


Sexology also touches on public issues such as the debates over abortion
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
, public health
Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals." It is concerned with threats to the overall health of a community based on population health analysis....
, birth control
Birth control

Birth control, sometimes synonymous with contraception, is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of pregnancy or childbirth....
, sexual abuse
Sexual abuse

Sexual abuse, also referred to as molestation, is the forcing of undesired sexual acts by one person upon another. The offender is referred to as a molester/molestor/ abuser/sexual abuser....
 and reproductive technology
Reproductive technology

Reproductive technology encompasses all current and anticipated uses of technology in human and animal reproduction, including assisted reproductive technology, contraception and others....
.

Notable contributors


See also: :Category:Sexologists

This is a list of sexologists and notable contributors to the field of sexology, sorted by the year of their birth:
  • Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
    Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing

    Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing was an Austria-Germany sexology and psychiatrist. He wrote Psychopathia Sexualis , a famous series of cases studies of sexual perversity....
      (1840-1902)
  • Albert Eulenburg
    Albert Eulenburg

    Albert Eulenburg was a German neurologist who was a native of Berlin. He studied medicine at the Universities of University of Berlin, University of Bern and University of Zurich, and in 1861 earned his doctorate....
     (1840-1917)
  • Sigmund Freud
    Sigmund Freud

    Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
      (1856-1939)
  • Wilhelm Fliess
    Wilhelm Fliess

    Wilhelm Fliess was a Germany otolaryngologist who practised in Berlin. On Josef Breuer suggestion, Fliess attended several conferences of Sigmund Freud in 1887 in Vienna, and the two soon formed a strong friendship....
      (1858-1928)
  • Havelock Ellis
    Havelock Ellis

    Henry Havelock Ellis was a United Kingdom sexology, physician, and social reformer....
      (1859-1939)
  • Robert Latou Dickinson
    Robert Latou Dickinson

    Robert Latou Dickinson was an United States obstetrician and gynecologist, surgeon, maternal health educator, artist, sculptor and medical illustrator, and research scientist....
     (1861-1950)
  • Albert Moll
    Albert Moll

    Albert Moll was a Germans psychiatrist and, together with Iwan Bloch and Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of modern sexology. Moll believed sexual nature involved two entirely distinct parts: sexual stimulation and sexual attraction....
      (1862-1939)
  • Edward Westermarck (1862-1939)
  • Magnus Hirschfeld
    Magnus Hirschfeld

    Magnus Hirschfeld was a gay German-Jewish physician, sexologist, and early gay rights advocate....
      (1868-1935)
  • Iwan Bloch
    Iwan Bloch

    Iwan Bloch was a Berlin dermatology.Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexology. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of 120 Days of Sodom, which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eug?ne D?hren in 1904....
      (1872-1922)
  • Theodor Hendrik van de Velde (1873-1937)
  • Max Marcuse
    Max Marcuse

    Max Marcuse was a Jewish - Germany dermatology and sexology. He became an editor for Magnus Hirschfeld?s Journal of Sexology in 1919 and continued editing the journal until 1932....
     (1877-1963)
  • Otto Gross
    Otto Gross

    Otto Gross was an Austrian psychoanalyst. A maverick early disciple of Sigmund Freud, he later became an anarchist and joined the utopian Ascona community....
      (1877-1920)
  • Ernst Gräfenberg
    Ernst Gräfenberg

    Ernst Gr?fenberg was a Germans-born medical doctor and scientist. He is known for developing the intrauterine device , and for his studies of the role of the woman's urethra in orgasm....
      (1881-1957)
  • Harry Benjamin
    Harry Benjamin

    Harry Benjamin was a Germans endocrinologist, widely known for his clinical work with transsexualism....
      (1885-1986)
  • Theodor Reik
    Theodor Reik

    Theodor Reik was a prominent psychoanalyst who trained as one of Freud's first students in Vienna, Austria. Reik received a PhD degree in psychology from the University of Vienna in 1912....
      (1888-1969)
  • Alfred Kinsey
    Alfred Kinsey

    Alfred Charles Kinsey , was an United States biologist and professor of entomology and zoology, who in 1947 founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University , now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction....
      (1894-1956)
  • Wilhelm Reich
    Wilhelm Reich

    Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual Neurosis symptoms....
      (1897-1957)
  • Mary Calderone
    Mary Calderone

    Mary Steichen Calderone was a physician and public health advocate. She was noted for her work in the advancement of sexual education. She served as President and Co-founder of the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States from 1954 to 1982....
     (1904-1998)
  • Wardell Pomeroy
    Wardell Pomeroy

    Wardell Baxter Pomeroy was an United States sexologist and co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Indiana University Bloomington and earned a Ph.D....
     (1913-2001)
  • Albert Ellis
    Albert Ellis

    Albert Ellis was an American psychologist who in 1955 developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He held M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in clinical psychology from Columbia University and founded and was the president and president emeritus of the New York City-based Albert Ellis Institute....
      (1913-2007)
  • Kurt Freund
    Kurt Freund

    Kurt Freund was Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist best known for developing phallometry , research studies in pedophilia, and for the "courtship disorder" hypothesis as a taxonomy of certain paraphilias ....
      (1914-1996)
  • Ernest Borneman
    Ernest Borneman

    Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann was a Germany crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicology, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist....
      (1915-1995)
  • William Masters (1915-2001)
  • Paul H. Gebhard (born 1917)
  • John Money
    John Money

    John William Money was a Psychology and Sexology well-known for his research into sexual identity and biology of gender....
      (1921-2006)
  • Ira Reiss (born 1925)
  • Virginia Johnson (born 1925)
  • Preben Hertoft
    Preben Hertoft

    Preben Hertoft , Denmark psychiatrist and professor in medical sexology, senior doctorate in medicine.After the death of his mentor Kirsten Auken, Hertoft worked over 40 years as a sexologist doing research, treatment, counseling and education....
      (born 1928)
  • Oswalt Kolle
    Oswalt Kolle

    Oswalt Kolle is a Germany sex education, who became famous during the 1960s for his numerous books and films on human sexuality. His work was translated into all major languages, while his films found an audience of 140 million worldwide....
      (born 1928)
  • Vern Bullough
    Vern Bullough

    'Vern Leroy Bullough' was an United States historian and sexologist.He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York , an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past dean of natural and social sciences at the Buffalo Stat...
      (1928-2006)
  • William Simon (1930-2000)
  • John Gagnon
    John Gagnon

    Dr. John Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook is a sociologist and sexologist. Gagnon and William S. Simon developed the concept of sexual scripts, which posits that a person's sexual behavior and experience of that behavior is influenced by their subjective understanding of their own sexuality....
      (born 1931)
  • Edward Eichel (born 1932)
  • Fritz Klein
    Fritz Klein

    Fred Klein was an United States Human sexuality, Psychiatry, inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid and author. He was also a pioneering bisexual civil rights activist, who was an important figure in the modern Gay rights....
      (1932–2006)
  • Milton Diamond
    Milton Diamond

    Milton Diamond is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality....
      (born 1934)
  • Erwin J. Haeberle
    Erwin J. Haeberle

    Erwin J. Haeberle is a German social scientist and sexologist.Haeberle was born on March 30, 1936 in Dortmund, Germany. From 1956 - 1963 he studied drama, German language, English literature, and French literature at the University of Cologne, University of Freiburg Br., University of Glasgow, and University of Heidelberg....
      (born 1936)
  • Gunter Schmidt
    Gunter Schmidt

    Gunter Schmidt is a Germany sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist.Schmidt was director of the section for sexual research in the clinic of the university in Hamburg ....
     (born 1938)
  • Rolf Gindorf
    Rolf Gindorf

    Rolf Gindorf is a Germany sexology. He is also a member of Mensa....
      (born 1939)
  • Volkmar Sigusch
    Volkmar Sigusch

    Volkmar Sigusch is a Germany sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut f?r Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main....
     (born 1940)
  • Martin Dannecker
    Martin Dannecker

    Martin Dannecker is a Germany sexologist and author.Dannecker was born in Oberndorf am Neckar. After his school he studied Industriekaufmann and later he studied as actor at a theatre school in Stuttgart....
     (born 1942)
  • Simon LeVay
    Simon LeVay

    Simon LeVay is an United States neuroscience known for his studies about brain structures and sexual orientation....
      (born 1943)
  • Shere Hite
    Shere Hite

    Shere Hite is an United States-born Germany sex education and feminism. Her sexology work has focused primarily on Human female sexuality. Hite builds upon biological studies of sex by Masters and Johnson and by Alfred Kinsey....
      (born 1943)
  • Anne Fausto-Sterling
    Anne Fausto-Sterling

    Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph. D. is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University. She participates actively in the field of sexology and has written extensively on the fields of biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles....
      (born 1944)
  • Ray Blanchard
    Ray Blanchard

    Ray Milton Blanchard is an Canadians of American origin sexologist, best known for his research studies on pedophilia, gender dysphoria, and sexual orientation....
      (born 1945)
  • Gilbert Herdt
    Gilbert Herdt

    Gilbert Herdt is an United States Cultural anthropology who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His studies of the 'Sambia' people -- a pseudonym he created -- of Papua New Guinea analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and Human sexual behavior....
      (born 1949)
  • Kenneth Zucker
    Kenneth Zucker

    Kenneth J. Zucker is an Canadians of American origin psychologist and sexologist, and head of the child and adolescent gender identity clinic at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health....
      (born 1950)
  • Pedro Nobre
    Pedro Nobre

    Pedro Nobre is a teacher of the education and psychology department of the university of tr?s-os-montes e alto douro . Coordinator of the Clinical Psychology masters degree in UTAD....
     (born 1970)


Scholarly journals

  • American Journal of Sexuality Education (ISSN : 1554-6128)
  • Annals of Sex Research (now Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research & Treatment)
  • Annual Review of Sex Research (ISSN 1053-2528)
  • Archives of Sexual Behavior (ISSN 0004-0002)
  • British Journal of Sexual Medicine (ISSN 0301-5572)
  • Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality (ISSN 1188-4517)
  • Culture Health and Sexuality (ISSN 1369-1058)
  • Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases (ISSN 0253-7184)
  • International Journal of Sexuality and Gender Studies (ISSN 1566-1768)
  • International Journal of Sexual Health (ISSN 1931-7611)
  • International Journal of Transgenderism (ISSN 1553-2739)
  • Journal of Bisexuality (ISSN : 1529-9716)
  • Journal of Child Sexual Abuse (ISSN 1053-8712)
  • Journal of Gay & Lesbian Issues in Education (ISSN : 1541-0889)
  • Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy (ISSN 0891-7140)
  • Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services (ISSN 1053-8720)
  • Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association (ISSN 1090-7173)
  • Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health (ISSN 1935-9705 )
  • Journal of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Identity (ISSN 1083-8147)
  • Journal of GLBT Family Studies (ISSN 1550-428X)
  • Journal of Homosexuality (ISSN 0091-8369)
  • Journal of LGBT Youth (ISSN 1936-1653)
  • Journal of Lesbian Studies (ISSN 1089-4160)
  • Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality (ISSN 0890-7064)
  • Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy (ISSN 0092-623X)
  • Journal of Sex Education and Therapy (ISSN 0161-4576)
  • Journal of Sex Research, The (ISSN 0022-4499)
  • Journal of Sexual Aggression (ISSN 1355-2600)
  • Journal of Sexual and Marital Therapy
  • Journal of Social Work and Human Sexuality
  • Journal of the History of Sexuality (ISSN 1043-4070)
  • Law & Sexuality
  • Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality (ISSN 0025-7001)
  • Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Issues (ISSN 1072-7841)
  • Scandinavian Journal Sexology (ISSN 1398-2966)
  • Sex Roles (ISSN 0360-0025)
  • Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research & Treatment (ISSN 1079-0632)
  • Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity (ISSN 1072-0162)
  • Sexual and Marital Therapy (ISSN 0267-4653)
  • Sexual and Relationship Therapy (ISSN 1468-1994)
  • Sexualities (ISSN 1363-4607)
  • Sexuality & Culture (ISSN 1095-5143)
  • Sexuality and Disability (ISSN 0146-1044)
  • Sexually Transmitted Diseases (ISSN 0148-5717)
  • Sexually Transmitted Infections (ISSN 1368-4973)
  • Sexuologie (ISSN 0944-7105)
  • Studies in Gender and Sexuality (ISSN 1524-0657)
  • Theology and Sexuality (ISSN 1355-8358)
  • Trends in Urology Gynaecology and Sexual Health (ISSN 1362-5306)


See also

  • List of sexology topics
    List of sexology topics

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  • List of sexology organizations
    List of sexology organizations

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  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Philosophy of sex
    Philosophy of sex

    Philosophy of sex is the part of applied philosophy studying human sexual behavior and love. It includes both ethics of phenomena such as prostitution, rape, sexual harassment, sexual identity, and homosexuality, and conceptual analysis of concepts such as "what is sex"? It also includes questions of sexuality and sexual identity and the ont...
  • Sex education
    Sex education

    Sex education is a broad term used to describe education about human sex organ, sexual reproduction, sexual intercourse, reproductive health, emotional relations, reproductive rights and responsibilities, contraception, and other aspects of human sexual behavior....
  • Lesbian utopia
    Lesbian utopia

    Lesbian utopia refers to a conceptual community made up entirely of biological females who are not dependent on Man for anything.The concept of an all-female society is mentioned in Greek mythology through a legend of Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors....
  • Sexological testing
    Sexological testing

    #Sexuality can be inscribed in a multidimensional model comprising different aspects of human life: biology, Human reproduction, culture, entertainment, Interpersonal relationship and love....
  • Erogenous zone
    Erogenous zone

    An Erogenous zone is an area of the human body that has heightened sensitivity and stimulation of which normally results in human sexual response....