What is a “clinical sexologist”?
A three-year post-graduate training is required to be registered as a clinical sexologist in Belgium. Sexuality is a complex set of human behaviors involving body, mind, and heart, so it makes sense that experts in the subject undergo some pretty rigorous training.
When it comes to fertility, too often the medical aspects can overtake the human, and sex is relegated to its most basic function: to create a pregnancy. But in recent years, says Dr. Hanes, fertility clinics have begun paying more attention to sexual function and dysfunction and the role of sexuality in procreation.
In this episode of The Whole Pineapple, Ruby and Anne talk with Dr. Ioan Hanes about sex, the human sexual response, and the need to talk more openly about sex and human biology in general.
Ioan Hanes (pronounced “Yohan Hanesh”) is a medical doctor and clinical sexologist who lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. A certified medical nutritionist, he is a clinical practitioner in lifestyle medicine and head of the Obesity Department of the Military Hospital MeNuFit Brussels.
Dr. Hanes has completed several different lifestyle medicine related courses in the US and Belgium. He has a strong interest in the field of sexual health and lifestyle medicine. He is the founder and coordinator of the European Lifestyle Medicine Certificate and co-coordinator of the first European Lifestyle Medicine book. He is the founder and president of the Belgian Lifestyle Medicine Organization. He is a multicultural practitioner which is demonstrated in the five languages he speaks fluently: English, French, Romanian, Hungarian, and Dutch.
You can find more about Dr. Hanes on his LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanhanesmd/. Learn more about Ruby and Anne and Seattle Reproductive Medicine at their website, https://thewholepineapple.com/.
Resources
American Sexual Health Association
European Lifestyle Medicine Organization
World Association for Sexual Health
https://www.facebook.com/ELMO.org/
https://www.facebook.com/people/BELMO-Belgian-Lifestyle-Medicine-Organisation/100064175161112/
Gagnon, John H. and Simon, William (1974) Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality, paperback ed. Chicago, IL: Aldine Press.
NPR Fresh Air - Master's & Johnson
“The legacy of Masters and Johnson is certainly complex: they perpetuated sensational myths about HIV/AIDS and homosexuality, but they also helped to expel many misconceptions about sex and sexuality, particularly regarding women and the elderly.” https://www.historyhit.com/masters-and-johnson-controversial-sexologists-of-the-1960s/
Still want more? Don't worry! We’ll cover the history of sexual research in a later episode.
