POLS20011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Erectile Dysfunction, Havelock Ellis, Paraphilia
28 Jul 2018
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As a discipline, sexology traces back to the mid-1800s in western europe. It was the first legitimising of the science"/study of sex. Prior to this sex was never studied in a systematic, serious way by researchers. Contested definition as to what gets included, but most would agree it describes the study of sexuality with subfields like sexual medicine, sexual education, etc. ) How sex is studied - science vs culture vs society vs politics - is at the heart of sexology debates. Radical feminism is concerned that sexology is a force that normalises hetereosexuality and the supremacy of male sexuality. Liberal feminism sees sexology as a liberating, creative force that normalises sexuality and allows the free exploration of one"s sexuality in society. The term sexology" has, since the mid1990s, come to include a lot more than the scientific study of sexuality, and instead includes commentary about sexual trends and sexual crises" e. g. ) lipstick lesbians, hook-up culture, sexualisation of children, media representations.
