Concerned about the state of marriage – and thus the ability of whites to procreate – eugenicists were behind some of the earliest modern marriage manuals.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Sexology
Displaying all articles
Many people aren’t interested in having sex or don’t feel sexual attraction to other people. Is it normal to be like this?
Sexology is touted as the heroic struggle for the objective study of human sexuality and the quest for sexual freedom. But what do women think?
Sexology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of human sexuality, including sexual behaviours, interests and function. A sexologist is a trained professional who specialises in human sexuality.
After treatment ends, many cancer survivors are left with sexual changes that, when left unaddressed, can become long-term problems.
Older people, and particularly older women, are often thought of as being asexual or sexually undesirable. Although the particular age this is believed to happen varies somewhat in the popular imagination…
The recently published Italian study suggesting women can only have clitoral, rather than vaginal, orgasms raises important questions about the medicalisation of female sexuality and sexual dysfunction…
“Undress your mind” shouts the promotional material for the Wellcome Trust’s latest exhibition, The Institute of Sexology. It’s an apt tagline, encapsulating how sexology – or the science of sex – has…
Controversy over vaginal versus clitoral orgasm is nothing new; it’s a debate that has consumed sexologists and psychoanalysts for the last 100 years. Now, new research has added fresh fuel to the controversy…
Top contributors
-
Emeritus Professor, University of New England
-
Emeritus Professor, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
-
Professor of Women's Health Psychology, Translational Health Research Institute (THRI), Western Sydney University
-
Lecturer, School of Rural Medicine, University of New England
-
Honorary Professor in Sexual Health, UNSW Sydney
-
Senior Lecturer in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
-
Reader in Hispanic Studies, University of Leeds
-
Research Fellow, PhD candidate, La Trobe University
-
Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Riverside
-
Lecturer in Sexology and Postgraduate Course Coordinator, Curtin University
-
Lead Investigator of Rekindle; Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Sydney
-
Research Associate, King's College London
