Eli Coleman is an American

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 app ...

. He is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In 2007, he was appointed the first endowed Chair in Sexual Health at the

University of Minnesota Medical School The University of Minnesota Medical School is the medical school of the University of Minnesota. It is a combination of two campuses situated in Minneapolis and Duluth, Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Medical School is also part of one of ...

. He has published research on

sexual orientation Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender. These attractions are generall ...

sexual dysfunction Sexual dysfunction is difficulty experienced by an individual or partners during any stage of normal sexual activity, including physical pleasure, desire, preference, arousal, or orgasm. The World Health Organization defines sexual dysfunction as ...

and

compulsivity Compulsive behavior is defined as performing an action persistently and repetitively. Compulsive behaviors could be an attempt to make obsessions go away. The act is usually a small, restricted and repetitive behavior, yet not disturbing in a pa ...

gender dysphoria Gender dysphoria (GD) is the distress a person experiences due to a mismatch between their gender identitytheir personal sense of their own genderand their sex assigned at birth. The diagnostic label gender identity disorder (GID) was used until ...

, and

sex offender A sex offender (sexual offender, sex abuser, or sexual abuser) is a person who has committed a sex crime. What constitutes a sex crime differs by culture and legal jurisdiction. The majority of convicted sex offenders have convictions for crime ...

s. Coleman is also on the advisory board to Ro, a service for chronic health conditions.

Membership in scientific societies

Coleman is the founding and current editor of the ''

International Journal of Sexual Health The ''International Journal of Sexual Health'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research on sexual health as a state of physical, emotional, mental, and social well-being. It is the official journal of the World Association for Sexu ...

'' (formerly the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality). He was also the founding editor of the ''

International Journal of Transgender Health The ''International Journal of Transgender Health'' (IJTH) is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on gender dysphoria and gender incongruence, the medical treatment of transgender individuals, social and legal acceptance ...

''. He is one of the past-presidents of the

Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS, or "quad-S") is a 501(c)3 non-profit professional membership organization "dedicated to advancing knowledge of sexuality and communicating scientifically based sexuality research and scholars ...

, the

World Professional Association for Transgender Health The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association (HBIGDA), is a professional organization devoted to the understanding and treatment of gender identity and g ...

(formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association), the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS),

International Academy of Sex Research The International Academy of Sex Research (IASR) is a scientific society for researchers in sexology. According to John Bancroft, retired director of the Kinsey Institute, IASR "can claim...most of the field's leading researchers." IASR is uniq ...

, and the

Society for Sex Therapy and Research The Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR, pronounced "star") is an international non-profit professional association. It was founded in 1975 and its members "have clinical and/or research interests in human sexual concerns."

Views

Regarding

sexual addiction According to proponents of the concept, sexual addiction, also known as sex addiction, is a state characterized by compulsive participation or engagement in sexual activity, particularly sexual intercourse, despite negative consequences. The con ...

, Coleman has said, "I think the term 'addiction' is overused and implies that all behavioral excesses can be explained by some similar mechanism. What we know about alcohol and drug addictions cannot simply be transferred to other behavioral excesses. Sex is a basic appetitive drive that for some people becomes out of balance for a variety of reasons. For some it is a problem of impulse control. For others it is more like an obsession. For others, it is like a compulsion. And for others, it is a part of their personality structure and has nothing to do with impulse control, obsessions, or compulsions."

Publications

Some of his significant papers are: *Coleman, E. “Developmental Stages of the Coming Out Process.”

Journal of Homosexuality The ''Journal of Homosexuality'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research into sexual practices and gender roles in their cultural, historical, interpersonal, and modern social contexts. History The founding editor-in-chief was Char ...

7(2/3):31—43, 1981/82. *Coleman, E. “Bisexual Women and Lesbians in Heterosexual Marriage.”

11:87-113, 1985. * *Coleman, E. “Bisexuality: Challenging Our Understanding of Human Sexuality and Sexual Orientation.” In Shelp. E.E. (ed.). Sexuality and Medicine, Vol. 1. pp. 225–242. New York: Reidel Publishing, 1987. *Coleman, E. and Bockting, W. O. "“Heterosexual” Prior to Sex Reassignment – “Homosexual” Afterwards: A Case Study of a Female-to-Male Transsexual."

Archives of Sexual Behavior The ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal in sexology. It is the official publication of the International Academy of Sex Research. History The journal was established in 1971 by Richard Green, who served as its ed ...

1(2): 69–82, 1988. * * *Coleman, E. and Bockting, W. O. "A Comment on the Concept of Transhomosexuality, or the Dissociation of the Meaning."

20(4): 419–21, 1991. *Coleman, E., Bockting, W. O. and Gooren, L. "Homosexual and Bisexual Identity in Sex-Reassigned Female to Male Transsexuals."

22(1): 37–50, 1993. * * Satcher D, Hook EW, III, Coleman E
Sexual Health in America: Improving Patient Care and Public Health
JAMA. 2015;314(8):765-766. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.6831.

References

External links

Eli Coleman's page at the University of Minnesota
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coleman, Eli American sexologists University of Minnesota faculty Transgender studies academics Living people 1948 births