Sexology

The effects of sexual therapy for sexual problems

by Brynjar Landmark

Systematic Review

All health care professional might encounter people with sexual problems and have a role in promoting sexual health,... more All health care professional might encounter people with sexual problems and have a role in promoting sexual health, knowledge and allowing for questions. Competence might aid this role. In this report, commissioned by the Directorate of Health, we aim to answer questions on which effect sexual therapeutic interventions have on people with different sexual problems. Overall sexual therapeutic interventions are effective for people with sexual problems. This is shown for broad spectre of populations and broad spectre of problems. The results, however, must be interpreted with caution as the studygroups were small, there are limitations in methodological quality and huge variations in what is defined and presented as sexual therapeutic interventions. We can not rule out publication bias.

Not a translation but a mutilation": The Limits of Translation and the Discipline of Sexology

by Heike Bauer

Richard von Krafft-Ebing's Psychopathia Sexualis as Sexual Sourcebook for Radclyffe Hall's The Well of Loneliness

by Heike Bauer

Race', normativity and the history of sexuality: Magnus Hirschfeld's racism and the early-twentieth-century sexology

by Heike Bauer

’We Cannot Be Greek Now’: Age Difference, Corruption and the Making of Sexual Inversion

by Jana Funke

Forthcoming in English Studies, Special Edition, (Re)Reading John Addington Symonds, 2013

Bryher, Havelock Ellis and the Adventure of Sex

by Jana Funke

Communal Modernisms. Ed. Emily Hinnov. (forthcoming with Palgrave, 2013)

Navigating the Past: Sexuality, Race and the Uses of the Primitive in Magnus Hirschfeld’s Travel Writings

by Jana Funke

Forthcoming in Compelling Connections: Sexual Knowledge and Receptions of the Past. Eds. Kate Fisher and Rebecca Langlands (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Transliberación de la corporalidad: Transitando la transexualidad desde la bioética

by Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz

Corporalidad y sexualidad. Aportaciones desde la esterilidad

by Jorge Alberto Álvarez-Díaz

Between public agenda and the emergence of intervention programmes: sexual offenders within the Portuguese context

by Ricardo Barroso

Published in "Sexual Offender Treatment, 2011"

The foreskin is a lip, and thus an organ; its ablation is a mutilation

by Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux

Abstract – Only mentioning the lips of the mouth and the vulva, anatomy textbooks do not generalize that notion of lip... more Abstract – Only mentioning the lips of the mouth and the vulva, anatomy textbooks do not generalize that notion of lip to all the organs that have a similar structure and func-tion. Among these, the foreskin moreover includes an erogeneity and an ability to retract that make it the specific organ for masculine autosexuality. Generalizing the concept of lip and giving lonely pleasure a scientific and non contemptuous calling, this short article fills two medical gaps.

Keywords: biology, anatomy, sexology, organ, autosexuality, lip, foreskin, circumcision, mutilation, child abuse

Who Was Magnus Hirschfeld and Why Do We Need to Know?

by Peter Hegarty

Magnus Hirschfeld, his biographies and the possibilities and boundaries of 'biography'as 'doing history'

by Peter Hegarty

This article considers the two major biographies of sexologist MagnusHirschfeld, MD (1868–1935), an early campaigner... more This article considers the two major biographies of sexologist MagnusHirschfeld, MD (1868–1935), an early campaigner for ‘gay rights’ avant la lettre. Like him, his first biographer Charlotte Wolff (1897–1986) was a Jewish doctor who lived and worked in Weimar Republic Berlin and fled Germany when the Nazi regime came to power. When researching Hirschfeld’s biography (published in English in 1986) Wolff met a librarian and gay activist, Manfred Herzer, who would eventually be a cofounder of the Gay Museum in Berlin and publish (in German, in 1992) the other major Hirschfeld biography currently available. Using,
inter alia, the correspondence between Wolff and Herzer, the article aims to explore and interrogate the boundaries and possibilities of ‘biography’ as a form of ‘doing history’.

Sexology, the Homo/Hetero Binary, and the Complexities of Male Sexual History

by Chris Brickell

This article re-evaluates the emphasis on the ‘homo/hetero binary’ which appears in many discussions of sexuality... more This article re-evaluates the emphasis on the ‘homo/hetero binary’ which appears in many discussions of sexuality since the late nineteenth century, by exploring several key European sexological texts and their classifications of sexual desire between men. It suggests that these writers offered not so much a nascent binary between ‘homosexual’ and ‘heterosexual’ individuals, but a complex and contradictory set of sexual ontologies that encoded liminality as well as notions of innate sexual perversion. A strand of sexual fluidity lived on through the twentieth century, forming a counternarrative to the notion that individuals could be assigned to either a heterosexual or a homosexual subject position. Such a re-reading of important sexological writings offers us one way to complicate current assumptions about the birth and subsequent influence of ‘the homosexual’ and the prevalence of the ‘homo/hetero binary’. This impels us to more closely investigate the spaces lying between and around the poles of this binary.

Sex self-help books: Hot secrets for great sex or promoting the sex of prostitution?

by Meagan Tyler

ors of current sex self-help literature often adopt pseudo-feminist language in their work, and frequently claim that... more ors of current sex self-help literature often adopt pseudo-feminist language in their work, and frequently claim that it promotes women's interests. A number of commonly recommended sex self-help books were analysed to test this notion. A critical feminist analysis of the texts suggests that far from promoting women's pleasure and sexual empowerment, this literature promotes the (active) sexual servicing of men by women. Drawing on previous feminist work in this area, it is proposed that current sex self-help literature should therefore be understood as advocating the sex of prostitution as an ideal for women to follow in their heterosexual relationships.

No Means Yes? Perpetuating Myths in the Sexological Construction of Women's Desire

by Meagan Tyler

The diagnosis and treatment of desire disorders are contentious issues within sexual medicine today. The issue of... more The diagnosis and treatment of desire disorders are contentious issues within sexual medicine today. The issue of women's sexual desire (or rather lack of sexual desire) in particular, has highlighted a variety of problems within the current diagnostic framework for sexual dysfunctions. In an effort to rectify some of these problems, the concept of receptivity has been put forward by a number of clinicians with the suggestion that this better reflects women's experiences of desire. It is argued here, however, that he concept of receptivity presents serious problems for women in heterosexual relationships. Rather than helping women, furthering this concept may simply reinforce male sexual demands, curtail women's sexual autonomy, and promote coercive sex as an acceptable norm. It should therefore not be adopted by therapists.

The Medical Authority of Pornography

by Meagan Tyler

Most often, publications dealing with pornographication concentrate on particular areas of popular culture which are... more Most often, publications dealing with pornographication concentrate on particular areas of popular culture which are easily recognisable: fashion, art, advertising and television programming. Analyses of these prominent sites of pornographication tend to focus on the way in which pornography is gaining greater exposure, influence and legitimacy in the mainstream. But there are also more subtle sites of pornographication which are yet to receive the same sort of attention, including the use of pornography in sexology and sex therapy. In particular I consider the way in which these branches of medicine are affording pornography considerable legitimacy, and even authority, in regard to sexual matters and the problems that this trend may pose for women.

From Orgasms to Organizations: Maslow, Women's Sexuality and the Gendered Foundations of the Needs Hierarchy

by Lise Gotell

Vrijwillige incest tussen kinderen en volwassenen zonder schadelijke consequenties: bestaat dat echt? (Consensual incest between adults and children without harmful consequences: does it really exist?)

by Titus Rivas

Online paper of 2011.

For other articles on related subjects (in Dutch and English), see: http://www.txtxs.nl/artikel.asp?artid=468

There is very little evidence for consensual incest between children and adults. From a liberal perspective on... more There is very little evidence for consensual incest between children and adults. From a liberal perspective on sexuality, it should be taken seriously, though it may take a long time before this becomes feasible, due to prevaling taboos

GEÏNSPIREERD DOOR ATHENE: KUISHEID ALS GEZOND ONDERDEEL VAN LEEFWIJZEN (Inspired by Athena: Chastity as a healthy part of life styles)

by Titus Rivas

Published in Prana, December 1993/ January 1994, 80, 23-26.

Exploring negative and positive forms of sexual abstinence. Exploring negative and positive forms of sexual abstinence.