sexologistn.
/sɛkˈsɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /sɛkˈsɑlədʒəst/ An expert or specialist in sexology.
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1913 W. J. Robinson Pract. Treat. Causes, Symptoms & Treatm. Sexual Impotence xiii. 93 Some sexologists claim that in the strict sense of the term there is no such thing as a physiologic pollution.
1929 19th Cent. Oct. 459 When he leaves his province, as many so-called sexologists are in the habit of doing.
1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook xiv. 196 The distinction made by some sexologists between the detumescent and contractile components of the sexual drive.
1980 Times 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.
2005 Independent 25 Nov. (Arts & Bks. Review section) 5/4 An eminent emigre sexologist and psychoanalyst, Reich claimed to have found a primordial cosmic energy called ‘orgone’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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