Preben Hertoft (5 January 1928 – 26 February 2017), was a

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psychiatrist and

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in medical sexology, senior

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. After the death of his mentor Kirsten Auken, Hertoft worked over 40 years as a

sexologist Sexology is the scientific study of human sexuality, including human sexual interests, behaviors, and functions. The term ''sexology'' does not generally refer to the non-scientific study of sexuality, such as social criticism. Sexologists a ...

doing research, treatment, counseling and education. In 1986 he founded the first medical centre for sexology in Denmark. Most of the time he had

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and homosexual patients with sexual problems in therapy, but he also treated and counselled

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and

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. He was elected a fellow by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex for outstanding contributions to the field.

Selected works

* Preben Hertoft: Paradiset er ikke til salg aradise is not for sale - on transvestites* Preben Hertoft: Klinisk sexologi edical sexology* Preben Hertoft et al.: Paedagogisk sexologi ducational sexology

References

External links

The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex
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