What Does a Sexologist Do?

A sexologist is someone concerned with the scholarly investigation of human sexuality, from normal sexual development to pathologies such as sexual abuse. The field is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating knowledge from a number of academic pursuits, and sexologists can work in a range of settings. Some are primarily interested in conducting studies and clinical trials to understand more about human sexuality, for example, while others offer therapy to people with sexual dysfunction, drawing upon their experience to help people.
The study of human sexuality is ancient, as many ancient sex manuals attest, and humans have long been interested in the many facets of sexuality. A sexologist draws from a number of fields, including psychology, medicine, anthropology, sociology, biology, and epidemiology. Some colleges and universities specifically offer opportunities to study this discipline, while others allow students to create their own sexology degrees from within various academic departments. Someone interested in the biology of human sexuality, for example, could work from the perspective of biology.
Normal human sexuality covers a very broad spectrum, and many experts in this field are interested in the diversity of human sexuality, what contributes to sexual development, and the interaction between culture and sexuality. Others are interested in pathologies, and what causes people to develop abnormal or dangerous behaviors and attitudes. Sexual dysfunction is also a topic of interest for some professionals, with researchers studying the various causes and solutions for sexual dysfunction to improve quality of life for people who struggle with this problem.
As a student of sexual behavior, a sexologist can meet with some skepticism from people unfamiliar with the field. Many people are uncomfortable with discussions of sexuality, let alone frank and often clinical study of it, and sexologists sometimes meet with opposition when they present the findings of research studies, seek funding to assist with new studies, or even mention what they do at a dinner party. For some professionals, a large part of their work involves educating people about human sexuality and encouraging honest discussions about issues such as communication in relationships, healthy sexual development, and methods for preventing the spread of disease.
Some notable researchers in the field include Alfred Kinsey, author of the notorious Kinsey Reports, along with William Masters and Virginia Johnson. There are a number of avenues of exploration within the study of human sexuality for someone interested in becoming a sexologist, ranging from the sexual practices of ancient cultures to modern social attitudes that facilitate or hinder the spread of sexually transmitted infections.

Premature Ejaculation

You are alone with your partner. The events develop quickly and you intend to prolong your pleasure. But everything ends up before its beginning...

It is normally when it occurs sometimes.  It may occur during foreplay or right after penis touches vulvar lips or enters vaginal opening of the woman. However, if it happens regularly it is abnormal and here we can talk about premature ejaculation.

First of all in this case do suffer man's self-rating and also relationship with his partner. It is not necessarily to bear with that because premature ejaculation can be treated.

What are the causes?
There is no unambiguous answer. There are several causes of premature ejaculation:
1. psychological factors (depression, stress, feeling of guilt, low self-rating, excessive nervousness owing to sex)
2. diseases (problems with thyroid gland, prostate infective diseases, changing of level of particular hormones and substances produced by brain).

Premature ejaculation of young people is connected with inexperience (they do not know yet their body very well). Some men have premature ejaculation as a result of erectile dysfunction.

Diagnosis
For premature ejaculation diagnostics the doctor should find out many things from the past and present patient's state of health and also all about medicines the patient is taking.  The doctor has to ask in details about sexual relationship with the partner.

It is very hard to talk about sexual problems with the doctor, but it is important to ask honestly his questions. Here is an approximate list of the questions:

• How long premature ejaculation is observed?


• Does this problem appeared recently or it exist from the very beginning of sexual life?


• Does the premature ejaculation occur every time or just sometimes?


• Does it occur with only one partner or with every women?


• How often do you make sex?


• Do you take drugs or alcohol?

To find out potential medical reasons of the problem the doctor can appoint complex examination.

How it can be treated?
The main method of treatment is psychological, sexual, pharmacological therapy. In some cases helps the only one way of treatment, in other cases it necessary to use them in complex.

Psychological therapy.
Speaking with psychologist often can be very useful.  Patient can come to consult the doctor along with his partner. Specialist will help to release stress and to improve quality of sexual life.

Sexual therapy.
There are some exercises that help to learn to delay ejaculation, that can be done alone or with the partner.
1. Compression method.  Partner stimulates your penis with her hand until erection.  When she feels that ejaculation is coming she compresses penis head for several seconds. Erection is coming down partially. In 30 seconds  partner stimulates penis again. It should be repeated several times and finally ends with ejaculation.
2. Interrupter method. Partner stimulates penis until ejaculation. At this moment she stops stimulation and waits until the man cools down. Then again she starts to eat penis with her hands. It repeats until ejaculation.

Pharmacological therapy.
1. Antidepressants. Drug side effect of some medicines belonging to that group (paroxetine, flouxetine) is orgasm delay. That is why they can be used on doctor's orders to treat premature ejaculation. If those medicines do not help then doctor prescribes another type of antidepressant called clomipramine.
2. Creams containing local anesthetic (for example, lidocaine) are used for many years to treat premature ejaculation. Cream application on head of penis opiates sensation and delays ejaculation. Before sex cream should be washed off to avoid its contact with woman's genital organs.