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sexology orig. U.S.|sɛkˈsɒlədʒɪ|
[f. sex n. + -ology.]
The scientific study of sex and of the relations between the sexes.
1902W. H. Walling (title) Sexology. 1912Amer. Jrnl. Urology VIII. 441 The author believes that..there is practically no individual who can claim to have entirely avoided sexual activities of any kind, an opinion in which Lowenfeld, whose experience in sexology is so extensive, concurs. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love i. 13 The second factor is the medieval theory of marriage—what may be called, by a convenient modern barbarism, the ‘sexology’ of the medieval church. 1977E. J. Trimmer et al. Visual Dict. Sex (1978) i. 18 Reich is..in all the history of sexology, perhaps the most single-minded believer in the centrality of sex to human lives.
Hence sexoˈlogical, a., of or pertaining to sexology; seˈxologist, one who studies sexology.
1914Amer. Jrnl. Clinical Med. Aug. 687/1 There may be some homosexuals who are reconciled to or even proud of their abnormality, as some sexologists claim, but I must confess that I have not met such types. 1920Contemp. Rev. July 93 A point of some sexological interest. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook xiv. 196 The distinction made by some sexologists between the detumescent and contractile components of the sexual drive. 1973I. Robinson Survival of English v. 178 The only happy aspect of the sexological misapplication of the jargon of science is that the common language is strong enough to make it appear at times what it is, howlingly funny. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Nov. 1355/1 The sexual inclinations of a sexologist presumably have to be investigated in some detail, even if the whole truth is not intrinsically interesting. |