Sexology
Sexology is the systematic study
of human sexuality. It encompasses all aspects of sexuality, including:
What is sexology?
Sexology in its modern form is largely a 20th
century phenomenon.
Sexology relates to a number
of other fields of study:
1.several fields of medicine, including andrology,
gynaecology, and the anatomy of the sex organs
2.the psychology, sociology, and anthropology
of sexual behavior
3.neuroscience can be used to study many basic sexual reflexes,
and is increasingly relevant to more complex aspects of sexual
behavior
4.psychiatry studies some of the more extreme disorders of sexual
behavior
5.many aspects of sexual behavior are or have been regulated by
law in various jurisdictions, and various classes of sexual offences
are studied by criminology
6.biology studies the sexual behavior of other animals, which
can be compared with human sexual behavior
7.the techniques of evolutionary biology can be brought to bear
on the causes of sexual behavior
8. the epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases.
Sexology also touches on public issues such as
the debates over abortion, public health, birth control and reproductive
technology.
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