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Alain Giami - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sexology as a profession in france preliminary results of a national survey 2019
Sexologies, 2020Co-Authors: Alain Giami, S MichaelsAbstract:Summary The article aims to identify the sociodemographic characteristics of the population of sexologists practicing in France and in particular the distribution between the different initial professions (doctors, psychologists, nurses, midwives, other professions), the sex ratio and the adhesion to the professional identity of sexologist. It was also a question of examining the training and diplomas in Sexology obtained, the framework of practice (private or salaried), the different clinical practices used by sexologists as well as their degree of participation in the Sexology apparatus (membership of an association, participation in congresses). A cross-sectional survey was carried out between December 2018 and March 2019 using a self-administered questionnaire distributed electronically to persons who had participated in the Assises de sexologie in previous years (2014–2018). This is the questionnaire that was already used in the surveys conducted in 1999 and 2009 and adapted to recent developments. The results show a significant change in the population of sexologists (compared to the 1999 data) with, in particular, the inversion of the sex ratio (83% of women) and the relative proportion of doctors and non-physicians (67% of non-physicians). The majority of participants have a degree in Sexology or sexual health (62%). More than 60% of the participants do not devote more than 50% to Sexology as part of their overall professional activity. In spite of their minority presence among sexologists, physicians continue to exert a strong influence in that they are more frequent speakers at Sexology congresses. The survey has thus revealed a change in the profile of persons working in the field of Sexology and sexual health as well as a change in the missions assigned to sexologists and to all persons who intervene in matters related to sexuality and sexual health. This evolution is parallel to the creation of new Sexology associations focusing on specific themes.
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Sexology as a profession in spain results of the euro sexo study on the practice of Sexology in spain
International Journal of Sexual Health, 2017Co-Authors: Felipe Hurtado, Alain GiamiAbstract:ABSTRACTThis article presents the major results of a survey on the profession in Spain. An international research program previously conducted in eight European countries (Denmark, Finland, France, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom) was adapted to Spain. The sample was made up of Spanish professionals who were members of professional organizations in Sexology. The questionnaire used in the other European countries was translated and adapted into Spanish; its 89 questions inquired into: the sociodemographic profile of respondents, their initial academic and professional background, the specific training received in Sexology or human sexuality, and their professional practices in Sexology. In Spain, most sexologists are women from a nonmedical health profession. Most respondents received specific training in Sexology and stated that it is not necessary to be a physician to be a sexologist. The findings bring to light many similarities with the data collected in the eight other European ...
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clinical practice in portuguese Sexology
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2017Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Sofia Ribeiro, Alain GiamiAbstract:Few studies explore the clinicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding sexuality, despite their role in the sexual-health socialization process. This study focuses on Portuguese sexologists engaged in clinical practice. It aims to characterize sexologists' sex education and training and their clinical practices, including diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. This research followed the methodology of an European survey on Sexology as a profession (Euro-Sexo). From the 91 respondents who completed questionnaires, 51 (56%) were active in clinical practice. Results indicate that the Portuguese clinical sexologist is significantly older, predominantly male, has had training in Sexology, performs more scientific research, and is more engaged in teaching activities when compared to nonclinical working sexologists. This article describes the main sexual problems presented by patients to Portuguese clinical sexologists and highlights differences in the professional groups and approaches toward treatin...
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Sexology in portugal narratives by portuguese sexologists
Journal of Sex Research, 2016Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Ana Beato, Fernando Luis Machado, Alain GiamiAbstract:This article presents the emergence and development of modern Sexology in Portugal through the analysis of Portuguese sexologists’ narratives, to explore how they commit to a professional identity as sexologists, and to discuss how they integrate their professional role into the vast multidisciplinary field of Sexology. In-depth interviews were conducted with 44 key professionals, purposefully recruited to guarantee heterogeneity concerning generation, gender, training, and practice. Content analysis focused on highlighting differences and articulations among the main professionals making up the field. The findings indicate that Sexology is not seen as a full-fledged profession but rather as a specialization or a secondary field of action. The sexual medicine perspective is prevalent and more visible among physicians, thus reflecting the gap between psychosocial and biomedical approaches. A close link between clinical work and research and a gap between clinical work and health promotion were found. Despi...
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Sexology as a profession in portugal sociographical composition and self nomination of portuguese sexologists
International Journal of Sexual Health, 2016Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Sofia Ribeiro, Alain GiamiAbstract:ABSTRACTObjectives: The objective of this study was to describe the socio-demographic characteristics, the initial profession and training in Sexology, sex therapy and psychotherapeutic techniques of Portuguese sexologists. Methods: As part of an European survey on Sexology as a profession (Euro-Sexo), a questionnaire was mailed to all Portuguese sexologists. Results: Portuguese sexologist is in average 43 years old, is mainly female, a non-physician, and has training in Sexology. Age, gender, profession, clinical practice and educational background in Sexology, research practice in Sexology and sexual education made a significant contribution to the prediction of self-nomination as a sexologist. Conclusions: An interesting diversity of Sexology professions, from medical to non-medical fields was identified, and its influence on the practice of sexual medicine was discussed.
Elise Chenier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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disorders of desire sex and gender in modern american Sexology revised and expanded form
Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2008Co-Authors: Elise ChenierAbstract:At the 2005 IASSAC conference, Irvine commented that if she were to write this book today she would approach her study of sex and gender in modern American Sexology quite differently. Of course, few would write the same book twice, but Irvine was speaking directly to the shared sense of panic and despair U.S. scholars and activists expressed as they watched precious gains made in the 1970s and 1980s disappear faster than forces can be mobilized against the current assault on sexual rights and freedoms. As she remarks in the Afterword, critiques from the left were drowned out by the tidal wave of criticism from the right. Irvine’s comments were an apt reminder that whether we are constructing it, treating it, or writing about it, sex is politically charged territory where everyone has a position. Fortunately, the publisher recognizes that this volume’s sociohistorical analysis of modern American Sexology is as relevant to readers today as it was when first released in 1990 (see Turner, 1992). Reissued in expanded form, the returning reader is offered additional material in the form of a short preface, Chapter 7 (which first appeared as an article in a 1993 issue of Social Text), and an Afterword that brings the book, and some of its arguments, up-to-date. Aside from minor editing for clarity, the original contents remain unchanged. Irvine’s approach refuses to assess the success—or failure—of any one technique, approach or theory. Like other historians of sexuality, she focuses on unpacking the cultural, ideological, and commercial foundations Sexology rests upon. Influenced by social control and social construction theories, Irvine regards 20th century American sexologists as ‘‘agents for the medicalization of sex’’ (p. 243). A central theme that runs throughout the text is that Sexology faces a double bind: on the one hand, because it relies on scientific rationality to stake a claim for cultural and political authority and legitimacy, Sexology is doomed to fail since it refuses to engage with broader social and political theories of power and oppression. However, if it were to incorporate the critical insights of the feminist and gay activist left into their research and treatment approaches, Sexology would have a tough time transforming their services and treatments into a viable product for the consumer marketplace. Social change will not occur when sex ‘‘problems’’ (many of which are constructed and defined by sexologists themselves) are treated as individual problems; neither can it be bought or sold in pharmaceutical or latex form. As she puts it, addressing social issues was ‘‘anathema to Masters, Johnson, and many other sexologists. In sex therapy, the ‘cure’ is orgasm, not social change. And this was vital, because orgasms can be marketed in a profit-making system, while social change cannot’’ (p. 149). Irvine’s broad thesis remains unchanged in the 2005 edition, except that now she regards bioscience and ‘‘Big Pharma’’ as the major challenge facing the future survival of Sexology. To introduce this book to a new generation of scholars (and as a refresher for the rest of us), a brief recap is in order. Rather than focus on the ways that sexual ‘‘progressives’’ opened new discursive sites for the articulation of sexual politics outside of the moral paradigm that prevailed, section one focuses on the conservative leanings of ‘‘scientific sexologists.’’ Irvine argues that unlike European sexologists whose professional origins were grounded in the fight for social equality and against discrimination, U.S. experts ultimately helped to create and police sociosexual boundaries by providing a pseudoscientific basis for gender and heteronormativity (p. 7). Sex researchers like Kinsey and Masters and Johnson gained a successful foothold in the culturally conservative 1950s and 1960s by claiming an ability to solve complex social problems E. R. Chenier (&) Department of History, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada V5A 1S6 e-mail: echenier@sfu.ca
Violeta Alarcao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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clinical practice in portuguese Sexology
Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2017Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Sofia Ribeiro, Alain GiamiAbstract:Few studies explore the clinicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding sexuality, despite their role in the sexual-health socialization process. This study focuses on Portuguese sexologists engaged in clinical practice. It aims to characterize sexologists' sex education and training and their clinical practices, including diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. This research followed the methodology of an European survey on Sexology as a profession (Euro-Sexo). From the 91 respondents who completed questionnaires, 51 (56%) were active in clinical practice. Results indicate that the Portuguese clinical sexologist is significantly older, predominantly male, has had training in Sexology, performs more scientific research, and is more engaged in teaching activities when compared to nonclinical working sexologists. This article describes the main sexual problems presented by patients to Portuguese clinical sexologists and highlights differences in the professional groups and approaches toward treatin...
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Sexology in portugal narratives by portuguese sexologists
Journal of Sex Research, 2016Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Ana Beato, Fernando Luis Machado, Alain GiamiAbstract:This article presents the emergence and development of modern Sexology in Portugal through the analysis of Portuguese sexologists’ narratives, to explore how they commit to a professional identity as sexologists, and to discuss how they integrate their professional role into the vast multidisciplinary field of Sexology. In-depth interviews were conducted with 44 key professionals, purposefully recruited to guarantee heterogeneity concerning generation, gender, training, and practice. Content analysis focused on highlighting differences and articulations among the main professionals making up the field. The findings indicate that Sexology is not seen as a full-fledged profession but rather as a specialization or a secondary field of action. The sexual medicine perspective is prevalent and more visible among physicians, thus reflecting the gap between psychosocial and biomedical approaches. A close link between clinical work and research and a gap between clinical work and health promotion were found. Despi...
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Sexology as a profession in portugal sociographical composition and self nomination of portuguese sexologists
International Journal of Sexual Health, 2016Co-Authors: Violeta Alarcao, Joana Almeida, Sofia Ribeiro, Alain GiamiAbstract:ABSTRACTObjectives: The objective of this study was to describe the socio-demographic characteristics, the initial profession and training in Sexology, sex therapy and psychotherapeutic techniques of Portuguese sexologists. Methods: As part of an European survey on Sexology as a profession (Euro-Sexo), a questionnaire was mailed to all Portuguese sexologists. Results: Portuguese sexologist is in average 43 years old, is mainly female, a non-physician, and has training in Sexology. Age, gender, profession, clinical practice and educational background in Sexology, research practice in Sexology and sexual education made a significant contribution to the prediction of self-nomination as a sexologist. Conclusions: An interesting diversity of Sexology professions, from medical to non-medical fields was identified, and its influence on the practice of sexual medicine was discussed.
E Huyghe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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sexual health and needs for Sexology care in digestive cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy a 4 month cross sectional study in a french university hospital
Supportive Care in Cancer, 2018Co-Authors: Thierry Almont, Corinne Couteau, Helene Etienne, Pierre Bondil, Rosine Guimbaud, Leslie R Schover, E HuygheAbstract:Purpose To assess sexual health and needs for Sexology care of cancer patients during chemotherapy.
John Money - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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history causality and Sexology
Journal of Sex Research, 2003Co-Authors: John MoneyAbstract:In 1896, Krafft‐Ebing published Psychopathia Sexualis. Popularly defined as hereditary weakness or taintedness in the family pedigree, degeneracy was called upon as a causal explanation for perversions of the sexual instinct. Although Krajft‐Ebing accepted Karl Ulrichs’ proposal that homosexuality could be innate and probably located in the brain, he paid little attention to neuropathological Sexology. Alfred Binet challenged Krafft‐Ebing's orthodoxy by explaining fetishism in terms of associative learning, to which Krafft‐Ebing's response was that only those with a hereditary taint would be vulnerable. Thus did the venerable nature‐nurture antithesis maintain its rhetoric, even to the present day. Krafft‐Ebing died too soon to meet the Freudian challenge of endopsychic determinism, and too soon also to encounter the idea of a developmental multivariate outcome of what I have termed the lovemap. Like other brain maps, for example the languagemap, the lovemap requires an intact human brain in which to deve...
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principles of developmental Sexology
1997Co-Authors: John MoneyAbstract:Principles of Developmental Sexology is a summation of Money's life's work, much of it devoted to pediatric Sexology, both normal and abnormal. This book marks the foundation of a new branch of scholarship and science, the developmental Sexology of childhood and adolescence, from prenatal life onward. Uniquely thorough and comprehensive in its use of data, Principles of Developmental Sexology maintains its disinterestedness, and avoids both the currently popular theories of social constructionism and the so-called medical models of sexuality.
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forensic Sexology paraphilic serial rape biastophilia and lust murder erotophonophilia
American Journal of Psychotherapy, 1990Co-Authors: John MoneyAbstract:Forensic Sexology is not synonymous with either forensic psychiatry or forensic psychology. It is a specialty in its own right, and is needed in the courtroom. Paraphilic sex offenders on trial are...
