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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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Milton Diamond, a sexologist who had gone by Mickey since childhood, was sitting on the other side of the room.

From New York Times May 8, 2024

The sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran Berlin's Institute for Sexual Science, advocated for the rights of transgender people.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2023

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

From BBC Mar. 22, 2022

He’s written about the cereal promoter John Harvey Kellogg and the sexologist Alfred Kinsey.

From Washington Post Apr. 8, 2019

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

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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