Sexual medicine
As a branch of clinical and outpatient medicine, sexual medicine deals with all aspects that serve to maintain and promote sexual health . Sexual medicine does not designate a branch of medicine of its own, but rather combines various medical disciplines in an interdisciplinary discourse with other branches of science such as psychotherapy , social psychology and ethics .
Sexual health
According to the WHO, sexual health is defined as follows: Sexual health is the state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being related to sexuality and does not just mean the absence of illness, dysfunction or weakness. Sexual health requires both a positive, respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the opportunity for pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free from oppression, discrimination and violence. If sexual health is to be achieved and preserved, the sexual rights of all human beings must be recognized, protected, and respected.
Subject areas of sexual medicine
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Sexual dysfunction in men and women
- Erectile dysfunction ( erectile dysfunction )
- Anorgasmia (he and / or he or she do not have orgasmic pleasure)
- Vaginismus (she has painful cramps in the vagina)
- Disorders of gender identity
- Problems finding sexual orientation
- Transsexuality (women who feel like men and vice versa)
- Disorders (associated with suffering) in sexual behavior ( paraphilia )
- Violence ( sadism , masochism )
- pedophilia
- Zoophilia
- necrophilia
The criteria for when deviant sexual behavior is considered a mental disorder are described in the article Paraphilia .
- Secondary sexual disorders due to somatic diseases such as metabolic diseases , cancer diseases or neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis
Sex medicine can be viewed as a medical sub-category of sex research . Sex research encompasses areas of anatomy , physiology , andrology , endocrinology , gynecology , urology , psychiatry , psychology , social psychology , anthropology , sociology , ethics and religion .
literature
- Ulrich Clement: Systemic Sex Therapy. 2004, ISBN 3-608-94398-6 .
- Volkmar Sigusch: Practical Sexual Medicine. Deutscher Ärzte-Verlag, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-7691-0503-6 .
- Volkmar Sigusch (ed.): Sexual disorders and their treatment. 4th enlarged edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart / New York 2007, ISBN 3-13-103944-2 .
- Bernhard Strauss: Psychotherapy for sexual disorders. 2004, ISBN 3-13-108792-7 .
- Robert Kovarik: Sexological balneotherapy - spa treatment of sexual disorders. Ciando eBooks / LULU-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-0-557-50746-7 .
- Lykke Aresin , Erwin Günther (Hrsg.): Sexualmedizin. Student textbook. Verlag Volk und Gesundheit, Berlin 1983; 3rd edition, subtitled A Guide for Medical Students , ibid. 1988.
See also
Web links
- Volkmar Sigusch : Sexual medicine: Against the "cloudy, stinking fog of hypocrisy" Dtsch Arztebl 104 (2007), A-406 online
- Sexual medicine research and counseling center at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein - Campus Kiel
- Institute for Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charité University Hospital
- AfSG - Academy for Sexual Health - Vienna
- SexMedPedia - Sexual Medicine Encyclopedia
Individual evidence
- ^ Word Health Organization (2006) Defining sexual health. Report of a technical consultation on sexual health, 28–31 January 2002. WHO, Geneva (Translation by: WHO Regional Office for Europe, BZgA (ed.) (2011) Standards for Sexuality Education in Europe. BZgA, Cologne)
