International Journal of Sexual Health
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