- Magnus Hirschfeld
Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician, sexologist, and gay rights advocate. He was born in Kolberg (modern Kołobrzeg) in a Jewish family, the son of a well-beloved physician and 'Medizinalrat', Hermann Hirschfeld. In 1887-1888 he studied in Breslau Philosophy and Philology, then from 1888-1892 Medicine in Strasbourg, Munich, Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1892 he took his doctoral degree. After his study he traveled through the U.S.A. for eight months, … - Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey (June 23, 1894 - August 25, 1956), was an American biologist and professor of entomology and zoology who in 1947 founded the Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction. - Carol Queen
Carol Queen is an American author, editor, and sexologist active in the sex-positive feminist movement. Queen has written essays, analyses, and erotica, including "Real Live Nude Girl: Chronicles of Sex-Positive Culture", and the novel "The Leather Daddy and the Femme". She has also served as editor for many compilations and anthologies on human sexuality, and written regular features for "Good Vibrations" magazine, … - Havelock Ellis
Henry Havelock Ellis (February 2, 1859 - July 8, 1939), known as Havelock Ellis, was a British doctor, sexual psychologist and social reformer. Ellis, son of Edward Peppin Ellis and Susannah Mary Wheatley, was born at Croydon, then a small town south of London. His father was a sea captain, his mother, the daughter of a sea captain, and many other relatives lived on or near the sea. At seven years of age his father took him on one of his voyages, … - John Money
John William Money, Ph.D. (8 July 1921 - 7 July, 2006) was a psychologist and sexologist well-known for his research into sexual identity and biology of gender. Money identified several influential concepts and terms during his career, including gender identity, gender role, gender-identity/role, and lovemap. He was awarded in the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal in 2002. - Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson, Ph.D. (born August 24 1929) is an American sex educator, author, and artist. She is widely known as a pioneer in women's (and to a somewhat lesser extent men's) sexual liberation, having sold more than 1 million copies of her first book, "Sex for One". Much of her fame has come from her work not only advocating masturbation, but conducting workshops for more than 30 years in which groups of about 10 or more women would talk, explore their own bodies, … - Harry Benjamin
Harry Benjamin was a German-born sexologist. He is best known for his pioneering work with transsexualism. - Gloria Brame
Gloria Glickstein Brame (born August 20, 1955) is a U.S. writer and sex therapist based in Athens, Georgia. She has a PhD and MPH in Human Sexuality and is a licensed clinical sexologist. Her practice specializes in consensual BDSM and sexual fetishism. She is also a lifestyle dominant. Her two most notable books are "Different Loving: the World of Sexual Dominance and Submission" and the more recent "Come Hither: A Commonsense Guide To Kinky Sex". - Prakash Kothari
Prakash Kothari is the head of sexual medicine at King Edward Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. He was dubbed "Man of the Year" in the field of sex by the World Association for Sexology at Caracas, Venezuela, and the Asian Federation for Sexology in Shanghai dubbed him the "Sexologist of Asia." He contributed an essay to Uncertain Liaisons in 1993. - Ray Blanchard
Ray Blanchard is a Canadian sexologist who is in charge of the gender program at the Clarke site of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. - Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. One biographer, Myron Sharaf, writes that Reich's work left a deep impression on influential thinkers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, … - Milton Diamond
Milton Diamond (born 6 March 1934 in New York, New York) is a professor of anatomy and reproductive biology at the University of Hawaii. He has had a very long and productive career in the study of human sexuality. Diamond graduated City College of New York with a B.S. in biophysics in 1955. He attended graduate school at University of Kansas from 1958-1962 and earned a Ph.D. in anatomy and psychology from that University. - Li Yinhe
Li Yinhe (February 4, 1952 -) is a sociologist, sexologist, and an activist for LGBT rights in People's Republic of China. She was married to the late writer Wang Xiaobo. - Pepper Schwartz
Dr. Schwartz has contributed to many magazines, journals and newspapers including the New York Times "Parent and Child" column, Sexual Health, Psychology Today and Contexts . Dr. Schwartz was a regular member of the KIRO-TV ( Seattle ) news staff for twelve years and appears regularly on national TV news, documentaries and other programs. - J. Michael Bailey
John Michael Bailey (born 2 July 1957 in Lubbock, Texas) is an American psychology professor, best known for his controversial work on homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexualism. Bailey obtained his B.A. in Mathematics from Washington University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Texas, Austin in 1989, where he studied under behavior genetics researcher Lee Willerman. He became a professor at Northwestern University in 1989. - William Masters
William Howell Masters (December 27, 1915 - February 16, 2001) was an American gynecologist, best known as the senior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with Virginia E. Johnson, he pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. Masters was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Hamilton College. He was a member of Alpha Delta Phi, … - Susan Block
Susan Marilyn Block, Ph.D., also known as Dr. Susan Block and Dr. Suzy, is an American sexologist, author, filmmaker, therapist, cable TV talk show host and cultural commentator. She is perhaps best-known for her television specials on HBO Chosen as one of "America's Greatest Thinkers" by the Great American Think-Off of New York Mills, Minnesota, … - Vern Bullough
Vern Leroy Bullough was an American historian and sexologist. He was a distinguished professor emeritus at the State University of New York (SUNY), an Outstanding Professor in the California State University, a past president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, past Dean of natural and social sciences at the SUNY College in Buffalo, New York, and one of the founders of the American Association for the History of Nursing. - Richard Green
Richard Green, M.D., J.D. is a sexologist specializing in homosexuality and gender variance. Green is founding president of the International Academy of Sex Research, founding editor of "Archives of Sexual Behavior" and author of several books. In 2006 he was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for Sexual Research. - Iwan Bloch
Iwan Bloch was a Berlin dermatologist Born in Delmenhorst, Germany, he is often called the first sexologist. He discovered the Marquis de Sade's manuscript of "The 120 Days of Sodom", which had been believed to be lost, and published it under the pseudonym Eugène Dühren in 1904. - Victoria Zdrok
Dr. Victoria Nika Zdrok (born March 3, 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine) is a "Playboy" Playmate, "Penthouse" Pet of the Year, a star of elaborate adult videos, an attorney, a clinical psychologist, sex therapist and former goodwill ambassador. As a child in the former Soviet Union, Victoria listened to Voice of America on her father's clandestine radio and diligently studied English with the hope of one day coming to America. - Wardell Pomeroy
Wardell Baxter Pomeroy (December 6, 1913 - September 6, 2001) was an American sexologist and co-author with Alfred C. Kinsey. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He graduated from Indiana University (BA, 1935; MA, 1942) and earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1954 from Columbia University. While working as a psychologist in an Indiana state hospital, he met Kinsey and came to work on his seminal sex-research project. - Anne Fausto-Sterling
Anne Fausto-Sterling, Ph. D., (born 1944) is Professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University. She participates actively in the field of sexology and has written extensively on the fields of biology of gender, sexual identity, gender identity, and gender roles. She has written two books intended for the general audience. The second edition of the first of those books, "Myths of Gender" (ISBN 0-465-04792-0), was published in 1992. - Shere Hite
Shere Hite (B.A. and M.A., History , 1967 and 1969) has published several books over the years, including The Hite Report: A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality and The Hite Report on Male Sexuality . She lives in London and is a newspaper columnist for several publications around the world. - Gilbert Herdt
Gilbert Herdt (born February 24, 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist who specializes in sexuality and gender identity-based cultures. His studies of the 'Sambia' people -- a pseudonym he created -- of Papua New Guinea analyzes how culture and society create sexual meanings and practices. In the United States, Herdt has also studied adolescents and their families, the emergence of HIV and gay culture, and the role that social policy plays in sexual health. - Evelyn Hooker
Evelyn "the Stone" Hooker (September 2, 1907 - November 18 1996) was a North American psychologist most notable for her 1957 paper "The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual" in which she administered psychological tests to groups of homosexual and heterosexual people and asked experts, based on those tests alone, to select the homosexual people. - Albert Moll
Albert Moll (1862-1939) was a German psychiatrist and, together with Iwan Bloch and Magnus Hirschfeld, the founder of modern sexology. Moll believed sexual nature involved two entirely distinct parts: sexual stimulation and sexual attraction. - Fritz Klein
Fred (Fritz) Klein (December 27, 1932 - May 24, 2006) was an American sex researcher, psychiatrist, pioneer of the bisexuality movement, and inventor of the Klein Sexual Orientation Grid. - Paul Gebhard
Paul H. Gebhard (born July 3, 1917) was an American anthropologist and sexologist. Born in Rocky Ford, Colorado, he earned a B.S. and a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1940 and 1947, respectively. From 1956 to 1982, Gebhard was the second director of the Kinsey Institute, following Alfred Kinsey himself. He co-authored the second of the Kinsey Reports and later claimed that the statistical bias in the data had not materially affected the results of either report. - Kurt Freund
Kurt Freund (17 January, 1914 - 23 October, 1996) was a sexologist famous for his studies of male sexual orientation and male sex offenders using penile plethysmography (PPG). - Clyde Martin
- Liu Dalin
Liu Dalin, also sometimes Dalin Liu or Ta-lin Liu, (born c. 1932) is a retired professor of sociology at Shanghai University who pioneered the field of sexology in China. From 1989-1990, he helped conduct a nation-wide survey on sexual behavior and attitudes in China, not unlike the Kinsey Report in the United States. - John Bancroft
Dr John H.J. Bancroft was Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 1995 to 2004. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine. Bancroft received his B.A. in 1960 and his M.D. in 1970 from Cambridge University. Bancroft was succeeded as Director of the Kinsey Institute in 2004 by Julia Heiman. - Ernest Borneman
Ernst Wilhelm Julius Bornemann (April 12, 1915 - June 4, 1995) was a German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic, psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist. All these diverse interests, he claimed, had a common root in his lifelong insatiable curiosity. From 1982-1986 he was president of the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research. In 1990 he was awarded the Magnus Hirschfeld Medal for sexual science. - John Gagnon
Dr. John Gagnon of the State University of New York at Stony Brook is a sociologist and sexologist. Gagnon and William H. Simon developed the concept of sexual scripts, which posits that a person's sexual behavior and experience of that behavior is influenced by their subjective understanding of their own sexuality. Their work is largely based on symbolic interactionism. - Julia Heiman
Dr Julia R. Heiman is an American sexologist and psychologist, the fifth Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 2004 to present time. She received a Bachelor of Arts (Psychology) in 1970 from Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, then Ph.D in Clinical Psychology in 1975 from State University of New York at Stony Brook. - Virginia E. Johnson
Virginia Eshelman Johnson (born February 11, 1925 in Springfield, Missouri) was an American psychologist, best known as the junior member of the Masters and Johnson sexuality research team. Along with William Masters, she pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual disorders and dysfunctions from 1957 until the 1990s. - Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (August 14 1840 - December 22 1902) was an Austro-German psychiatrist who wrote "Psychopathia Sexualis" (1886), a famous study of sexual perversity, and remains well-known for his coinage of the term "sadism" (after the Marquis de Sade). He also coined the term masochism using the name of a contemporary writer, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, … - Robert T. Francoeur
Robert T. Francoeur (born October 18, 1931), Ph.D., A.C.S., is an American biologist and sexologist. Dr. Francoeur was born on October 18, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan. He earned a B.A. in philosophy and English at Sacred Heart College in 1953, a M.A. in Catholic theology at Saint Vincent College in 1957, a M.S. in biology at the University of Detroit in 1961, a Ph.D. in experimental embryology at the University of Delaware in 1967, … - Rolf Gindorf
Dr. Rolf Gindorf is a German sexologist.
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