Sexology: A systematic Study

History

A number of ancient sex manuals exist, including Ovid’s Ars Amatoria, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, the Ananga Ranga and The Perfumed Garden for the SoulSoul Abraham, having wept a short time over his wife’s body, soon rose up from the corpse; thinking, as it should seem, that to mourn any longer would be inconsistent with that wisdom by which he had been taught that he was not to look upon death as the extinction of the soul, but rather as a separation and disjunction of it from the body, returning back to the region from whence it came; and it came, from God. (Philo) न जायते म्रियते वा कदाचिन्-नायं भूत्वा भविता वा न भूयः-अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोयं पुराणो-न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे (Gita 2.20 )’s Recreation. However, none of these treated 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, whose book Psychopathia Sexualis, published in 1886, recorded a dizzying array of sexual anomalies.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Sigmund Freud developed a theory of sexuality based on his studies of his clients. Wilhelm Reich and Otto Gross, 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 founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology) in Berlin in 1919. When the Nazis took power, one of their first actions, on May 6, 1933, was to destroy the Institute and burn the library.

In 1947, Alfred Kinsey founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.

Masters and Johnson 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 MD developed the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid a multi-dimensional system for describing complex sexual orientation, similar to the Kinsey scale, but measuring seven different vectors of sexual orientation and identity separately, and allowing for change over timeTime Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”). In 1978 Klein published The Bisexual Option, a groundbreaking psychological study of bisexuality and in 1998, he founded the American Institute of Bisexuality (AIB) to encourage, support and assist research and education about bisexuality.

The late Vern Bullough was a historian of sexology, as well as a researcher in the field. A list of his books is provided.

Scope of sexology

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, including andrology, gynaecology, and the anatomy of the sex organs
• the psychology, sociology, and anthropology of sexual behavior
• neuroscience can be used to study many basic sexual reflexes, and is increasingly relevant to more complex aspects of sexual behavior
• psychiatry studies disorders of sexual behavior when they impact on clinical conditions or reach a point where they become dysfunctional or sources of psychological difficulty.
• many aspects of sexual behavior are or have been regulated by law in various jurisdictions, and various classes of sexual offences are studied by criminology
• biology (general) and ethology (behavioral) study the sexual behavior of other animals, which can be compared with human sexual behavior
• the techniques of evolutionary biology can be brought to bear on the causes of sexual behavior
• the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases

Sexology also touches on public issues such as the debates over abortion, public health, birth control, sexual abuse and reproductive technology.

Notable sexologists

This is a list of notable sexologists, sorted by the year of their birth:

• Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840–1902)
• Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
• Wilhelm Fliess (1858-1928)
• Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)
• Albert Moll (1862-1939)
• Edward Westermarck (1862-1939)
• Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)
• Iwan Bloch (1872-1922)
• Theodor Hendrik van de Velde (1873-1937)
• Max Marcuse (1877-1963)[2]
• Otto Gross (1877-1920)
• Ernst Gräfenberg (1881-1957)
• Harry Benjamin (1885-1986)
• Theodor Reik (1888-1969)
• Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956)
• Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)
• Wardell Pomeroy (1913-2001)
• Albert Ellis (born 1913)
• Kurt Freund (1914-1996)
• Ernest Borneman (1915-1995)
• William Masters (1915-2001) and Virginia Johnson (born 1925)
• Paul H. Gebhard (born 1917)
• John Money (1921-2006)
• Preben Hertoft (born 1928)
• Oswalt Kolle (born 1928)
• Vern Bullough (1928-2006) [3]
• Betty Dodson [4] (1929)
• William E. Simon (1930-2000)
• John H. Gagnon [5] (born 1931)
• Fritz Klein (1932–2006)
• Milton Diamond (born 1934)
• Erwin J. Haeberle (born 1936)
• Rolf Gindorf (born 1939)
• Simon LeVay (born 1943)
• Volkmar Sigusch (born 1943)
• Shere Hite (born 1943)
• Anne Fausto-Sterling (born 1944)
• Gilbert Herdt (born 1949)
• Joe Beam (born 1949)
• Edward O. Laumann
• Annie Sprinkle  (born 1954)
• Carol Queen

See also

• List of sexology topics
• Gender and sexuality studies
• Philosophy of sex
• Sex education

External links (alphabetically)

• American Academy Of Clinical Sexologists
• American Association Of Sex Educators, Counselors, & Therapists
• Barry Yeoman, Forbidden Science, Discover magazine
• Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality
• Flemish Society of Sexology Belgium
• German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS)
• Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, in San Francisco
• Institute of Family and Sexuality Studies (KULeuven) Belgium
• Kinsey Institute
• Klein Sexual Orientation Grid
• Magnus Hirschfeld Archive of Sexology at the Humboldt University of Berlin with free access to:
  • Critical Dictionary of Sexology
  • Five online courses in Sexual Health
  • History of Sexology
  • Human Sexuality: An Encyclopedia
  • Sexology World-wide, listing of world-wide sexology institutions
• Sexology Professor: Sexological Terms and Sexologists
• Sexology SA
  • Academy for Sexology SA
• Sexology Studies World Wide (edu.humsex.org)
• Sexual and Affectional Orientation and Identity Scales by Bobbi Keppel & Alan Hamilton for the Bisexual Resource Center
• Society for Human Sexuality
  • History of Sexology
• World Sex Records (Section on Sexology)