Sexosophy

Sexosophy, according to the famed sexologist John Money, must be distinguished from sexology, as he states in the following (first, the abstract to the article, then a quote):

ABSTRACT. Sexology is the science of sex. Sexosophy is the ideology or philosophy of sex. In sex research, a great deal of what is actually applied ideology gets by, with its basic ideology unquestioned, as if it were scientific. The dominant ideology of the present era is that of, what is best termed, the sexual counterreformation, a reaction to the reformation, usually called the sexual revolution, of the 1960s and '70s. Victimology is a prime exemplification of ideology displacing science. In sex education, sex therapy, and marriage counseling, ideological research prevails over scientific research far too frequently -as when teenaged pregnancy is erroneously defined as an epidemic disease, for example, even when the mother is eighteen or nineteen years old; or when a twenty-year old is defined as a pedophile even if his/her partner is almost eighteen. There is no consensus as to what constitutes the basic theory of scientific sexology: behavior modification competes with motivational teleology. Exigency theory is a newcomer. Most research design follows the model of classical physics and celestial mechanics, and does not accommodate itself to multivariate, sequential determinants. Human sexological research is stigmatized as slightly unsavory and verging on pornographic, and there is inadequate dialogue between sexology and its less stigmatized relatives, reproductive biology, population

dynamics, and animal mating behavior.

Quote:

Prominantly displayed at every sex-research meeting and on the cover of every sex-research publication, there should be a great flag emblazoned with the declaration that there is a difference between sexology and sexosophy. Sexology is the science of sex. It is impartial, empirical, and, in the manner of all science, nonjudgmental.

Sexosophy is the philosophy of sex. It is not impartial but value-laden, ideological, and judgmental. A great deal of what passes for sexology today has absolutely nothing to do with science, but everything to do with either the secular or religious ideology of sex--in other words, with sexosophy.

The practitioners of sex research do not, in general, differentiate between sexology and sexosophy. Most of them, in fact, ride the ideological bandwagon of whatever is currently being funded as the "in-thing" in sexosophy. Current funding is predominantly in support of the opponents of what has become known as the sexual revolution of the 1960s and '70s, but which is more accurately named as a sexual reformation.

Sexology tells us, from carefully and correctly done scientific research, that sexual relationships between male adults and minors of any age, do not usually cause any physical or psychological harm to the minors.

"Sexosophy," on the other hand, promotes a litany of "serious harms" to minors engaging in sexual activity with adults. These claims are not based on carefully and correctly done scientific research--they are merely the moral and "religious" rantings of sexophobes and antisexuals