Gorm Wagner (24 August 1930 – 24 July 2018) was a Danish

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 ...

. Born on 24 August 1930, Wagner earned his medical degree at the

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in 1958, after which he completed a doctorate at the

Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality (IASHS) was a private, unaccredited, for-profit graduate school and resource center for the field of sexology in San Francisco, California. It was established in 1976 and closed in 2018. Degr ...

, and took an internship at the Trinity Lutheran Hospital in

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, United States, followed by a research position at

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. Upon Wagner's return to Denmark, he sought further training in gynecology and obstetrics, and joined the Department of Physiology at the University of Copenhagen as a research assistant in 1964, where he was later named an associate professor. Wagner began his research in

sexual medicine Sexual medicine or psychosexual medicine as defined by Masters and Johnsons in their classic Textbook of Sexual Medicine, is "that branch of medicine that focuses on the evaluation and treatment of sexual disorders, which have a high prevalence ...

in the 1970s. In 1978, Wagner and Adrian Zorgniotti founded the International Society for Impotence Research. Later Wagner founded the European Society for Impotence Research, which became a regional affiliate of the ISIR. Wagner led the ISIR as president from 1988 to 1994, and served in the same role for the ESIR in 1995. He was a founding co-editor of the ''

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'', alongside

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, from 1989 to 2002. The ISIR later changed its name to the

International Society for Sexual Medicine The International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM) is a medical society devoted to the study of the medicine of human sexuality. It publishes four journals, ''The Journal of Sexual Medicine'', ''Sexual Medicine Open Access'', ''Sexual Medicine Re ...

, and the ESIR became known as the European Society for Sexual Medicine. Following the name change, the ISSM founded four new journals, among them ''

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'' and ''

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''. Wagner died on 24 July 2018.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wagner, Gorm 1930 births 2018 deaths Danish sexologists University of Copenhagen alumni Academic staff of the University of Copenhagen Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality alumni