Definition of "sexology" []

• The study of human sexual behavior. (noun)

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• "Berkowitz: I have a Ph.D. in clinical sexology from the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco."
• "The letter is signed: "Much love, Pop, professor 'sexology' Ph. D.""
• "Gertzman argues that moral reformers during this period were “correct to claim that the traffic in ‘pornography’ was vigorous in the 1920s and 1930s, and that Jews were preponderant as distributors of gallantiana erotic fiction, avant-garde sexually explicit novels, sex pulps, sexology, and the most flagitious materials.”"