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sexologist

American  
[seks-ahl-uhj-ist] / sɛksˈɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

  • sexologists
    plural
  1. an expert in sexology.


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Dr. John Money was a sexologist at Johns Hopkins University for many decades.

From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2023

A leading figure in transforming such homophobic attitudes was sexologist Mariela Castro, the daughter of Fidel’s brother and fellow revolutionary, Raúl.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 24, 2022

Dr Sagar Mundada, a sexologist, said using these models was important in rural areas where illiteracy rates were higher.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2022

The Terranauts has a connection with The Inner Circle, his novel about controversial Indiana sexologist Alfred Kinsey, and Drop City, his Alaskan commune satire.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2016

That could not happen today, said Mr. Poroy, the sexologist.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2013

Late in the evening, Ronit Aloni is still working, giving an online lecture to a group of sexologists from Europe and as far afield as South America.

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2021

Money’s widespread yet disparate uptake is explained partly by the fact that his stylistically bizarre texts were aimed at multiple audiences, most often physicians, psychiatrists, and sexologists, but sometimes anthropologists, historians, psychoanalysts, and lay readers.

From Salon ● Jan. 3, 2015

It will look at key sexologists through history including Sigmund Freud, Marie Stopes and Alfred Kinsey and trace the experiments and studies carried out over decades.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2014

Such a conversion-promoting response would be viewed as “totally irresponsible today from the vast majority of sexologists and, I hope, clinicians,” said Ritch C. Savin-Williams, a professor emeritus of developmental psychology at Cornell.

From Slate

Who is going to cure sexologists of the delusion that it's their place to tell other people what to want and how much to want it?

From Time Magazine Archive

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