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gjm comments on Open Thread, Jun. 29 - Jul. 5, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: gjm 30 June 2015 01:17:34PM 1 point [-]

Do you have figures for the relative interest among sexologists in people with "normal desires" versus those you charmingly call "LGBT dysfunctionals"?

I am not by any stretch an expert in sexology, but it seems to me that sexologists shouldn't be studying people who have no partners and aren't having any sex any more than podiatrists should be studying people with no feet. (That doesn't mean that those people shouldn't be studied; it means that sexologists aren't the people to do the studying, because those people's difficulties occur before any sort of sex gets started. It's an issue for psychologists or sociologists, I'd have thought. Similarly, footlessness and its causes would be a proper object of study for specialists in industrial accidents, congenital malformations, etc.)