Category talk:Sexology

Archived discussion from WP:CFD on merger with Category:Sexuality
Keep:8, Merge (or delete): 4 ...updated Beland 04:20, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Redundant with Category:Sexuality. The sex-related categories have a lot of redundancy...this is part of a general cleanup. -- Beland 02:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC) as an aside, Template:sex-stub was recently made and is in use with the associated Category:Sex-related_stubs Courtland 16:14, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
 * Delete Wincoote 08:38, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but make a subcategory of Category:Sexuality (and also Category:Social sciences?). We do have articles specifically about the study of sexuality (i.e., the title article, or Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction) as well as Category:Sexologists, in contrast to sexuality itself.  Keep as limited in this manner.  Postdlf 00:01, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with Postdlf. Keep but reclassify most contents to Category:Sexuality.  -Sean Curtin 00:07, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep in agreement with User:Postdlf Courtland 03:57, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
 * Merge with "Sexuality" Ich 20:29, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge, as above. Radiant! 21:02, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge -- with Sexuality. Longhair 14:17, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, Sexology and Sexuality are two different things. Sexology is a branch of psychology and medecine which study the human sexuality and has now a very precise meaning, I agree that some entries don't belong there but this category needs just to be cleaned a bit--Khalid hassani 14:57, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely a difference in terms. Cburnett 18:53, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, for same reasons as other supporters. -Willmcw 22:37, Mar 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Megan1967 02:02, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)

OK, so which articles belong in "Sexology" but not in "Sexuality"? I would think that they are all appropriate. One solution might be to make "Sexology" a subcategory of "Sexuality", but they are currently subcategories of each other. Perhaps someone could write clear charters which establish the boundaries of each? Then I'd be happy to help clean up. -- Beland 06:23, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not an expert in this area, but I'll put in my thoughts anyway. My thinking is that something like Love-bite or Fart fetishism belongs in Category:Sexuality while things like AIDS and Adultery would stay in Category:Sexology.  The criterion I would use is things that relate directly to sexual acts would go to 'sexuality' and those that relate to things that involve sex but are not themselves sexual acts would remain in 'sexology'; therefore, AIDS is a disease that may or may not involved sex, but even if it was wholly a sexually transmitted disease, it itself is a consequence of sex and not part of the acts.  The same criterion should be used for, for instance, Pregnancy, which should probably be included in Category:Sexology, but it is restricted to Category:Obstetrics at present. Courtland 21:07, 2005 Mar 12 (UTC)
 * That's a really hard distinction to make. "Heterosexuality", for example, covers both a specific class of sex acts and a social identity.  After sleeping on this question, I think the distinction that people were trying to get at was that between "foo" and "the academic enterprise of studying foo.  To quote the main articles themselves, "Sexology is the systematic study of human sexuality." and "Human sexuality is the expression of sexual feelings."  I think the appropriate resolution would be to move most of the articles in to Category:Sexuality, leaving behind only articles about the academic enterprise - e.g. the Kinsey Institute, academic theories, and biographies of sexologists.  Yes, I like the sound of that well enough to support keep. -- Beland 04:20, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Now implementing cleanup with some automated help. -- Beland 05:07, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)