Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences

Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences ; (ÖGS)
purpose	Interdisciplinary society for sexology
President:	Johannes Wahala
Executive Director:	Wolfgang Wilhelm (General Secretary)
Establishment date:	1979
Seat :	Vienna
Website:	oegs.or.at

The Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences (ÖGS; English Austrian Society For Sexologies ) is an interdisciplinary, denominational and politically independent and non-profit-making association of Austrian sexologists. The association founded in 1979 by Ernest Borneman as the Austrian Society for Sexual Research has the goal of deepening and disseminating the knowledge of the sex sciences and their peripheral areas. The ÖGS refers to the sexual science tradition that has been partially forgotten in Austria. The renaming from sex research to sex sciences in the name was made by resolution of the General Assembly on March 2, 2015.

Club structure

The Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences is a partner organization of the German Society for Sexual Research (DGfS) as well as a member of the European Federation Of Sexology (EFS) and the World Association For Sexual Health (WAS).

Membership composition

The members work in various university and non-university institutions and come from the fields of sexual counseling and sex therapy, psychotherapy, medicine, psychology, pedagogy, sociology, law, social and cultural sciences, theology, social work and care sciences. The members also include interested politicians and committed people for whom an emancipatory, fear-reducing and autonomy-promoting sex science and sex education are important concerns.

Board

Current board members

Johannes Wahala (President) Psychotherapist, coach, supervisor, theologian (priest) and educator
Helmut Graupner (Co-President) Lawyer
Sandra Gathmann (Co-President) Psychologist
Wolfgang Wilhelm (General Secretary) Psychotherapist, sex therapist, communication scientist, supervisor, coach, registered mediator
Sabine Ziegelwanger (Deputy Secretary General) Sociologist, English studies specialist, sex pedagogue
Ramanie Ramalingam ( co-opted member for ÖGS-West) Graduated health and nurse, media pedagogue, life and social counselor, couple and family counselor, sex counselor
Clemens Hammer (co-opted member of the advanced and advanced training committee) medical doctor, psychotherapist in training, sex educator at the Austrian Society for Family Planning (ÖGF)
Dieter Schmutzer (auditor) life and social advisor, sex pedagogue
Thomas Fröhlich (auditor; financial advisor until 2008) qualified social worker, social scientist with a focus on project and social management

Former board members

Ernest Borneman (Chair 1979-1985)
Gudrun Hauer (chairman from 1992 to 1996)
Rotraud A. Perner (chairman from 1996 to 2002, third chairman until 2004, now honorary member)
Helga Ratzenböck (deputy general secretary until 2008) qualified social worker
Peter Poszvek (Deputy Financial Officer until 2008) Specialist in psychiatry and neurology, psycho- and sex therapist

Club content

Areas of responsibility

The ÖGS u. a .:

Research activity in the areas of relationship and sexual sciences
Research and training in the field of sex counseling and sex therapy
Research and training in the field of sex education
Promotion of sex science research initiatives
Integration of sex sciences at universities and colleges
Inclusion of sex science knowledge in the training curricula and curricula of all school types
Education about the psychosexual development of children and adolescents
Securing and promoting the human right to comprehensive sexual self-determination from birth to death
Promotion of sexual development and health ( salutogenesis )
Research into sexual behavior based on the new media (internet etc.)
Promote a holistic view of sexuality and sexual disorders e.g. B. Interaction between sexuality and current or early childhood relationships
Public relations work to break down anti-sexual attitudes
Combating sexual prejudice
Combating prejudice and discrimination against people who are stigmatized, excluded and disadvantaged because of their work in the field of sexuality ( sex workers )
Representing and supporting sexual minorities against discrimination
Opposition to any kind of sexually based censorship and restrictions on artistic freedom with the exception of sexual exploitation
Promotion and support of women-specific and emancipatory initiatives in society, research and education
Commitment to maintaining and liberalizing the possibilities of contraception and birth control
Gender research
Sexological reports
Expert activities in politics, society, media etc.
European and international networking in the field of relationship and sex research

ÖGS Academy

The ÖGS Sexualakademie is an advanced and advanced training institute of the Austrian Society for Sexual Sciences (ÖGS). Curricula structured in individual modules are offered in the specialist areas of sexualities and the worlds of relationships:

Curriculum Basic Sexual Skills,
Based on this, curricula in the areas of sex education , sex counseling , sex therapy and trans * gender .

All curricula are certified by the ÖGS, with the curricula basic sexual skills and sex therapy being recognized by the German Society for Sexual Research (DGfS).

Event series "Forum Sexuality"

In 2004, the ÖGS launched the “Sexuality Forum” with the aim of dealing with various areas of sexuality. Organizationally, these are public panel discussions with experts from the fields of politics, sex research, sex counseling and sex therapy, sexual criminal law and other disciplines. The previous events were held in the ballroom of the Mariahilf District Office with the support of Renate Kaufmann , who was in office until 2014, and was head of the 6th district in Vienna .

Topics of previous events have included:

January 20, 2004: Sexuality: a threat or a human right?

December 7, 2004: Rainbow families.

April 26, 2005: Pornography - Or: The burden of the law on the pleasure of the picture.

May 31, 2005: TransGender - Breaking out of gender boundaries or disease?

April 25, 2006: New lusts - new listlessness - Or: the neosexual revolution.

September 26, 2006: Sexuality in Prison - Taboo or Right?

December 5, 2006: How queer did Freud think ? - The deconstruction of sexual normality in the "Three Essays on Sexual Theory".

ÖGS as a founding and sponsoring association

The ÖGS acted as the founding and sponsoring association of the Courage advice center, which was founded around the turn of 1999/2000 . At the end of 2002, the Austrian Institute for Relationship and Sex Research, which works and researches in close cooperation with the ÖGS, took over the function of the sponsoring association .

ÖGS as publisher

For many years the ÖGS was the publisher of the magazine SexuS with relevant specialist articles.

Medial

St. Pölten seminary affair

In the wake of the affair surrounding the seminary of the diocese of St. Pölten in July 2004, as a result of which Kurt Krenn resigned at the urging of the Vatican and Klaus Küng became bishop, the ÖGS took part in a sharp protest against the homophobic media coverage. This was widely spread and individual ÖGS members were often invited by the media. As a result of this protest campaign, as well as the statements of some other people, initial headlines such as B. “(Homo) sex affair in the seminary (with child pornography)” a reporting that is more down to the essentials and based on separate facts can be achieved. After that, reports were usually more differentiated about the discovery of heterosexual child pornography on the one hand and the apparent relationship of adult men in an organization that strongly condemned this, especially under Kurt Krenn, and the possible sexual exploitation of addicts on the other .

Web links

Official website

Individual evidence

^ The ÖGS on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.
↑ ^a ^b ÖGS Sexualakademie , information brochure (PDF) on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.
^ The ÖGS - Board of Directors on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.
↑ The ÖGS story on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.
^ Forum Sexuality on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.
↑ ÖGS calls for the end of the homophobic driven hunt. St. Pölten seminary: “Not a sex scandal, but a hypocrite scandal!” In: ÖGS press release. July 12, 2004, archived from the original on October 12, 2007 ; accessed on October 9, 2015 .
↑ Michael Brinkschröder: The new homosexual image of the priest. St. Pölten as a discursive event. (PDF) In: Workshop. Issue 3/2004, March 2004, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on October 9, 2015 .

[1] The ÖGS on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.

[Sexualakademie-2] ÖGS Sexualakademie , information brochure (PDF) on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.

[3] The ÖGS - Board of Directors on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.

[4] The ÖGS story on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.

[5] Forum Sexuality on the ÖGS website. Retrieved October 8, 2105.

[6] ÖGS calls for the end of the homophobic driven hunt. St. Pölten seminary: “Not a sex scandal, but a hypocrite scandal!” In: ÖGS press release. July 12, 2004, archived from the original on October 12, 2007 ; accessed on October 9, 2015 .

[7] Michael Brinkschröder: The new homosexual image of the priest. St. Pölten as a discursive event. (PDF) In: Workshop. Issue 3/2004, March 2004, archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; accessed on October 9, 2015 .