sexology
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- sexological adjective
- sexologist noun
Etymology
Origin of sexology
Example Sentences
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But as the fields of psychology and sexology gained prominence at the turn of the 20th century, fears about homosexuality rose.
From Washington Post • Nov. 30, 2021
The Emergence of Sexuality by Arnold Davidson Psychoanalysis can only be properly understood in relation to the psychiatry and sexology of its time.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2017
Professor Christian Graugaard, a sexology professor at Aalborg University in Denmark, was speaking to the Danish television broadcaster DR when he made the comments.
From Newsweek • Mar. 3, 2015
He had great enthusiasm for Free Thinkers, the militant feminism of Margaret Fuller and George Sand, and such fads of his day as magnetism, sexology and phrenology.
From Time Magazine Archive
The problem for Dr. Coriat is to prove the truth of Freud's conceptions as laid down in his psychology and sexology, upon which his psychopathology is built.
From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various
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