Substantial sexology is the science that studies the sexes. There is one detail in this short definition: the use of the term sex (plural), not sex (singular).
That is, it is not only the “sex that is done” is studied, alluding to intimate relationships. Nor is it just about studying the “sex you have,” referring to your genitals. This discipline studies the sexes as a fact inherent in the human condition itself.
- We speak in the plural of the sexes.
- Referring to men and women.
- The fact is that the sexes are two.
- But the ways of feeling and living as a man or as a woman are infinite.
- Is therefore a discipline that considers sex ) as a factor of diversification.
Currently we have a lot of literature on the subject, there is an epistemology broad enough to talk about sexology as a discipline and not as a branch or specialization of others, however, this sexological knowledge is highly fragmented and degraded.
Fragmentation is seen in every discipline that studies sex as part of it, not as a whole, we are talking about ‘sexual psychology’, ‘sexual medicine’, ‘sexual anthropology’, etc. This fragmentation leads to the degradation of sexological knowledge.
Sexology is associated with what people do in bed and not with human sexual intercourse, this is much broader and includes not only intimate relationships, but also all issues related to people as sex beings.
Substantial sexology takes its name from the fact that it is presented as a sexology that encompasses all this knowledge, fully structured, harmonious and coherent in its own discipline.
So you’re moving away from the? Sexual? Placed as an adjective by many disciplines, as mentioned above, as a (sometimes small) part of them, and becomes a name, to become the discipline that studies “the sexes”.
Having its own entity, an epized methodology, and specific tools allows Sexology to address difficulties and problems in a much more efficient and comprehensive way, below we highlight a number of benefits of this reformulation:
This new sexology is the one that best describes all the factors of sexual diversity, as well as integrating all the discourses on gender and all that they imply.
The term “substantive”, as a claim to what sexology is and will be, is transitory. When sexology acquires the importance and recognition it deserves, it will not be necessary to give it a surname because it will already be substantial.