Counselling Sexologist & TRE Provider
SHAY REES-DAVIES
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What is Sexology?
"Sexuality is a central aspect of being human throughout life (that) encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction. Sexuality is experienced and expressed in thoughts, fantasies, desires, beliefs, attitudes, values, behaviours, practices, roles and relationships. While sexuality can include all of these dimensions, not all of them are always experienced or expressed. Sexuality is influenced by the interaction of biological, psychological, social, economic, political, cultural, legal, historical, religious and spiritual factors"
-World Health Organization, 2000
“As an interdisciplinary science, sexology is uniquely placed to bring together the knowledge and expertise of specialists, the diverse agendas of various advocacy groups, the health concerns of communities, and the methodologies and interests of diverse disciplines. For this reason, it is critical that sexology is promoted as a discipline/profession. It is not sufficient for specialists from other disciplines to apply their fields of expertise to the study of Sexual Health”.
-World Health Organization, 2000
“Sexology is the scientific study of the individual & collective sexual being & behaviour (procreation, relation and recreation) with a unique w-holistic, universal integralistic (bio-psycho-socio-cultural), inter-transdisciplinary (inter-transactional) theory. Sexology has its own methodology, and unique field of study, aimed at between & beyond the poles praxis theories as outcomes”.
- Lemmer 2005a, 2011a, 2011b.
Sexology explores human sexuality through an interdisciplinary lens:
The Psychology of Sexuality: Exploring the values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors that shape your sexual development, influence your relationships, impact your identity, and contribute to how you see yourself as a man/woman/wife/husband/human/lover/
father/mother/daughter /son/child/human.
The Biology & Physiology of Sexuality: Understanding hormones, sexual development, sexual function & dysfunction. We dive into topics like Sexological Endocrinology, Neurology, the impact of nervous system regulation and dysregulation, trauma, and pleasure.
Cultural Aspects: Navigating typical versus a-typical lifestyles and preferences, deepening your understanding of consent, and exploring how cultural and religious influences shape relationships and the individual as a healthy, happy sexual human being.
Social Factors: Understanding sexuality as a social construct, how it's portrayed in media, politics, and law, and the profound impact this has on individual and collective beliefs, values and ethics about sexuality.