English
Etymology
From sex + -ologist.
Pronunciation
Noun
sexologist (plural sexologists)
- Someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality.
2009 January 24, Charles Mcgrath, “Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust”, in The New York Times[1]:Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile.
2012 December 9, Paris Lees, “Transgender people get a status update”, in The Guardian[2]:Then there's US sexologist Ray Blanchard, best known for his ... well, problematic concept of autogynyphelia: the idea that trans women are actually men who feel attracted to their female-selves.
Translations
someone who studies, or is an expert in, sex and sexuality
- Arabic: عَالِم اَلْجِنْس m (ʕālim al-jins)
- Catalan: sexòleg m, sexòloga f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: sexuolog (cs) m, sexuoložka (cs) f
- Dutch: seksuoloog (nl) m, seksuologe (nl) f
- Finnish: seksologi (fi)
- French: sexologue (fr) m or f
- Galician: sexólogo m, sexóloga f
- German: Sexologe m, Sexologin f, Sexualforscher m, Sexualforscherin f, Sexualwissenschaftler m, Sexualwissenschaftlerin f
- Greek: σεξολόγος (el) m or f (sexológos)
- Hungarian: szexológus (hu)
- Italian: sessuologo (it) m, sessuologa (it) f
- Khmer: ភេទវិទូ (phet vi too)
- Macedonian: сексоло́г m (seksológ)
- Mongolian: сексологич (seksologič)
- Portuguese: sexólogo (pt) m, sexóloga f, sexologista m or f
- Russian: сексо́лог (ru) m (seksólog)
- Slovak: sexuológ m, sexuologička f
- Spanish: sexólogo (es) m, sexóloga f
- Swedish: sexolog c
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