sexologyn.
/sɛkˈsɒlədʒi/, U.S. /sɛkˈsɑlədʒi/ Originally U.S.
The study of human sexual life or relationships.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > [noun] > study of sex
sexology1867
sex work1934
1867 E. O. G. Willard (title) Sexology as the philosophy of life: implying social organization and government.
1902 W. H. Walling (title) Sexology.
1912 Amer. Jrnl. Urol. 8 441 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.
1936 C. 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.
1977 E. 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.
2000 A. Karlen Biogr. of Germ (2001) vii. 50 I had gone to the medieval university town of Lund to attend a month of sexology seminars.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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