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sexology

[sek-sol´ah-je]

the scientific study of sex and sexual relations.

sex·ol·o·gy

(seks-ol'ō-jē),

The scientific study of all aspects of sex, including differentiation and dimorphism, and, particularly, sexual behavior.

[L. sexus, sex, + G. logos, study]

sexology

The formal study of human sexual behaviour.

sexology

Sexology The formal study of the differentiation and dimorphism of sex and of erotic/sexual pairbonding of partners. See Sexosophy.

sex·ol·o·gy

(seks-ol'ō-jē)

The study of all aspects of sex and, in particular, sexual behavior.

[L. sexus, sex, + G. logos, study]

sexology

The study of sexual behaviour, especially in humans.

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First, according to Jagose, the period's 'normal' (i.e., healthy, white, reproductive, and simultaneously orgasmic) heterosexual couple was responsible for the movement of 'mankind' or 'the race' through a historical time imagined as both continuous and progressive (Orgasmology, p66).