IT’S hard to pass up the offer of a feast of “science and pleasure” in the
world’s capital of romance and sensuality. Which is how I found myself at the
15th World Congress of Sexology in Paris earlier this summer.
It’s a fabulous subject, sexology, full of fascinating insights and
revelations. The discipline, however, has its problems. Lack of academic
recognition, respect and funding dog our daily lives as sex researchers. But the
recent intervention of the major drugs companies seems to have elevated us to
the realms of “proper science”, and provided money for research. My Paris
congress was…
