About Sexual Health and Sexual Medicine

Sexual Health and Sexual Medicine is a collection of open access articles created by COST Action 18124: “European Sexual Medicine Network (ESMN)”. It focuses on sexual health and on sexual medicine as an interdisciplinary science. It encourages the interplay between different disciplines, including medicine, psychology, biology, sociology, pedagogy, and other health sciences.

This Collection welcomes a diversity of article types offered by Open Research Europe, including research articles, reviews, case studies, data notes, method articles, essays, and more, and facilitates the dissemination of all research outputs as openly and quickly as possible. The objective of this collection is to present the diversity of the work in the ESMN. These articles aim to reach the ESMN’s overarching goal of introducing and advancing sexual medicine at every level of education, and in clinical and public health research and practice.

The collection encourages state-of-the-science theoretical and methodological approaches. All articles are subject to rigorous and open peer review by invited experts on sexual health and sexual medicine.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Education in sexual medicine
• Sexualities
• Sexual dysfunction
• Sex surveys
• Chronic disease
• Psychiatry
• Paraphilia
• Hypersexuality
• Sexual rights
• Sexual minorities

For more information on COST Action CA18124 European Sexual Medicine Network, visit https://www.esmn-cost.eu/.  Please see the COST Action Gateway on Open Research Europe for further information about the wider COST Action network and to access all COST Action publications on ORE.