Abstract
Sexual science is currently at a crossroad between the development of basic science for sexual medicine, sociological and epidemiological surveys for sexual behavior, sexual dysfunctions and HIV prevention, education research and sexual rights. The work of Magnus Hirschfeld and Alfred Kinsey give evidence of how sexual science and sex research revealed hidden and repressed aspects of sexuality and contributed to broader changes in cultural scenarios of sexuality and social emancipation. The lecture will draw on the history of sex research starting in the beginning of the 20th century in Europe and in the US to identify how sexual science was always influenced by political questions which evolved all along the 20th century and how in return the results of sex research tried to influence public health policies and legal political issues at large: premarital sex, reproductive health, HIV prevention, sexual dysfunctions, aging, transgender individuals. Due the characteristics attributed to sex research as “dirty work”, its supposed proximity to pornography, its capacity to raise sensitive political issues (abortion, sexuality of the youth, sexual rights of LGBT people, legitimacy of non-marital sexual activity, sexual activity of older and disabled persons), the development of sex research, remains problematic and dependent of political conditions for funding, performing, dissemination, and application in public health.
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