sexological
- adjective
- /ˌsɛksəˈlɒdʒɪkəl/
- Specialized
- Social constructionism will be sidelined in social science and the humanities, where it will be used to explain shifts in sexological ideology rather than the development of individual sexuality.
Examples
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Havelock Ellis's sexological works began to appear in Japanese, commencing with Seisanburo Ogura's 1913 translation of Man and Woman.
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To quote from physics, our ultimate search should be for "a theory of everything." Sexological specialization notwithstanding, we all should subscribe to the same periodically updated encyclopedia of sexological knowledge and the same dictionary for the definition of terms.
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This is an issue where the sexological community itself needs to be involved, as do parent groups and medical professionals.
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A dozen or more years ago, I began a search of the sexological literature for causal postulates of sexuopathology or "sexual perversion," as it was formerly named.
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To quote from physics, our ultimate search should be for "a theory of everything." Sexological specialization notwithstanding, we all should subscribe to the same periodically updated encyclopedia of sexological knowledge and the same dictionary for the definition of terms.
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Although past research suggests that there may be merit in considering the diary-interview model as a tool for studying recall error in sexological interviews, prior studies do not offer clear validation that intact previously observed diary-interview differences are due to memory error.
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The first sexological challenge to the postulate of perversion by choice was launched on behalf of homosexuals by a jurist, Karl Ulrichs, in the 1860s (Kennedy, 1988).
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Researchers in the university's department focused on sexological studies to better understand human behavior.
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The conference featured several sessions on sexological theories and their implications for modern psychology.
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Her dissertation explored sexological concepts, analyzing how cultural norms influence sexual identity.
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Etymology
The word sexological combines sex ('sexual') and the ending -ology ('study of'), just like in biology and psychology. So sexological means 'relating to the scientific study of human sexuality'.