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International Journal of Sexual Health

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As the official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), the International Journal of Sexual Health promotes sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being through a positive approach to sexuality and sexual rights.

 

The journal publishes peer-reviewed scientific papers, editorials, and reviews, using quantitative and qualitative methods, descriptive and critical analysis, surveys, and case studies to examine the essential elements of this broad concept.

 

Leading experts from around the world present original work that covers a variety of disciplines, including sexology, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, and religion.

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As a WAS member, you have free access to all journal issues—one of the many benefits of your membership. If you’re part of a member organization, you can become an individual member for just $50 USD. We encourage you to download articles and stay updated with the latest research.

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Formerly titled the Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality, the International Journal of Sexual Health is dedicated to the basic understanding that sexual health is not merely the absence of disease, dysfunction, and infirmity, but also the presence of pleasurable and safe sexual enjoyment and satisfaction, free of coercion, discrimination, and violence.

 

The journal examines sexual attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, public policies and legislative issues, and a variety of sexual health problems, including the assessment and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders, sexual abuse and violence, and sexually transmitted infections.

Editor:

Eli Coleman, PhD.
Professor Emeritus

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Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health
Family Medicine and Community Health
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN

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Associate Editor:

Jessie Ford, PhD.

Assistant Professor

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Department of Sociomedical Sciences , Columbia University, New York, New York

EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD

Maria João Alvarez, PhD - Associate Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Portugal


Valerio Baćak - Assistant Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University Newark, NJ, USA


Swagata Banik, PhD - Professor & Chair, Department of Public Health & Prevention Science, Director, Center for Health Disparities Research & Education, Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, USA


Jaime Eduardo Barrientos Delgago, PhD - Associate Professor, Psychology Faculty, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile


James Beggan, PhD - Department of Sociology, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA


Peer Briken, MD - Professor, Director of the Institute for Sex Research, Sexual Medicine, and Forensic Psychiatry; University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany


Carlos F. Cáceres, MD, PhD - Professor, School of Public Health, Cayetano Heredia University; Director, Institute of Studies in Health Sexuality and Human Development, Lima, Peru


Peggy Cadet, BS - Independent Researcher, White River Junction, VT, USA


Joana Carvalho, PhD - Assistant Professor, Coordinator Human Sexuality Group (SexLab - CPUP) University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal


Xiangnan Chai, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China


Jennifer Jo Connor, PhD - Associate Professor, Clinic Director, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Kristian Daneback, PhD - Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden


Hanneke de Graaf, PhD - Senior Researcher, The Dutch Expertise Centre on Sexuality at Rutgers International, Utrecht, Netherlands


Alexis Dewaele, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Ghent University, Belgium, Europe


Nicola Doering, PhD - Professor of Media Psychology and Media Design, Institute of Media and Communication Science, Department of Economic Sciences and Media, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany


Jamie Feldman, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA


William Fisher, PhD - Professor, Department of Psychology and Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada


Abby C. Girard, PsyD - Associate Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Alain Giami, PhD - Director of Research, INSERM, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France


Brice Gouvernet, PhD - Department of Psychology, Université Rouen Normandie, MONT SAINT AIGNAN Cedex, France


Debby Herbenick, PhD, MPH - Professor, Center for Sexual Health Promotion, Indiana University, School of Public Health, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA


Erick Janssen, PhD - Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Family and Sexuality Studies, University of Leuven, Kinsey Institute Research Fellow, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA


Sofia Jawed-Wessel, PhD - Public Health and Health Behavior School of Health and Kinesiology University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, USA


Juan Jorge Gato, PhD - Researcher, Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal


Michael R. Kauth, PhD - Professor, Menninger Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine; Investigator, Behavioral Health & Implementation Program, Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA


Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD - Professor, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada


Osmo Kontula, PhD - Research Professor, Population Research Institute, Family Federation of Finland, University of Helsinki,Helsinki, Finland


Michal Lew-Starowicz, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Head of Department of Psychiatry, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland


Charlotta Löfgren, PhD - Professor in Health and Society, Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden


Purnima Mane, PhD, MPH - President Pathfinder International, Watertown, MA


Kristen Mark, PhD, MPH - Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA


Alex McKay, PhD - Executive Director, Sexuality Information and Education Council of Canada, Toronto, ON, Canada


Robin R. Milhausen, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Professor, Program in Human Sexuality, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Soumya Mohany, PhD - Demographer, Migration, Urbanization and Sexual Health Research, New Delhi, India


Erin Moore, PhD - Department of Psychology, College of Science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA


Charles Moser, PhD, MD - Professor and Chair of the Department of Sexual Medicine at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco, CA


Anna Ng, PhD - Coordinator, Research Unit on Love, Marriage and Family, School of Humanities and Languages, Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Hong Kong, China


Syed W. B. Noor, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Kinesiology & Health Science, Louisiana State University Shreveport, Shreveport, LA, USA


Lucia F. Sullivan, PhD - Professor, Department of Psychology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada


Patricia Pascoal, PhD - Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal


Andrew Perkins, PhD - Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA


Antonio Prunas, PhD - Department of Psychology, University of Milano Bicocca, Milan, Italy


Ryan Rahm-Knigge, PhD - Assistant Professor, Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Simon Rosser, PhD, MPH - Professor and Director, HIPS Program, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health,University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, USA


Eusebio Rubio-Aurioles, MD, PhD - Director, Asociacion Mexicana para la Salud Sexual, A.C. (AMSSAC), Delegacion Tlalpan, Mexico


Sonya Satinsky, PhD - Director, Health Promotion and Prevention Services University Health Services, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA


Vanessa Schick, PhD - Department of Management, Policy and Community Health
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health,Houston, TX, USA


Chander Shekhar, PhD - Professor, Department of Fertility Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai and Principal Investigator, National Family Health Survey, India


Robert Taylor Segraves, MD, PhD - Professor of Psychiatry, Case School of Medicine, Chair of Psychiatry, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH , USA


Jennifer Vencill, PhD - Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA


Pedro Vieira Baptista, MD - Lower Genital Tract Unit, Centro Hospitalar de São João Hospital Lusíadas Porto, Porto, Portugal


Kevan Wylie, MD - Honorary Professor, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

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