Definitions

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  • noun The study of human sexual behavior.

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  • noun The study of sex and sexuality

Etymologies

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sex +‎ -ology

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Examples

  • Berkowitz: I have a Ph.D. in clinical sexology from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco.

    What kills sex in a marriage? Look past the stereotypes 2008

  • The letter is signed: "Much love, Pop, professor 'sexology' Ph. D."

    George Bush Off The Record 2008

  • Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • The very phrase, "I couldn't help but wonder," that signals the beginning of her musings on sexology, can propel me into convulsions of creative identification.

    What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

  • The very phrase, "I couldn't help but wonder," that signals the beginning of her musings on sexology, can propel me into convulsions of creative identification.

    Caroline Hagood: What Sex and the City Taught Me About Writing 2010

  • Japanese sex jokes in traditional times: The nun who rubbed and thrusted, and other stories (Sino-Japanese sexology classics series) by Howard Seymour Levy

    She Nose, Doesn't She? 2010

  • There has been some controversy in sexology about which is more important for healthy sexuality in couples: increasing the security of the bond or developing more differentiation and my position is that we need both.

    Linda E. Savage: Enhancing Sexual Energy 2009

  • Now that we finally have a science of human sexuality -- and remember what a struggle this has been for sexology pioneers, such as Alfred Kinsey and Masters & Johnson -- we need a similar science for the rest of the animal kingdom.

    Frans de Waal: Fellating Female Fruit Bats 2009

  • I doubt and I may be wrong too that sekkusu tashi was borrowed from a sexology book or journal written in English.

    Foreign terms as convenient euphemisms mj 2009

  • Around the same time, she became interested in sexology, psychotherapy, and chirology or hand reading.

    Charlotte Wolff. 2009

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