This is a list of organizations and institutions of professional sexologists, sex researchers, and sexual behavior scientists. These do not include organizations of non-professionals, political advocacy or activist groups (although some organizations may engage in some advocacy as one of their activities), self-help or social groups, groups of enthusiasts for a topic in sexology, or websites unassociated with any actual organization or institution. These organizations and institutions are recognized by their local governments (such as by incorporation) or are administrative units within a larger organization that is.

Professional Organizations

• American Academy of Clinical Sexologists (AACS), a non-accredited school
• American Association Of Sex Educators, Counselors, & Therapists (AASECT)
• American Board of Sexology (ABS)
• Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
  Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
  The Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers is a non-profit organization founded to foster research, facilitate information exchange, further professional education and provide for the advancement of professional standards and practices in the field of sex offender evaluation and treatment...
  
  
• British Association for Sexual and Relationship Therapy (BASRT)
• Canadian Federation for Sexual Health
• Canadian Sex Research Forum
• European Federation of Sexology
• Flemish Society of Sexology
• German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
  German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research
  The German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research [in German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung ] is a sexuality research and counselling organization . It is primarily devoted to sociological, behavioral, and cultural sexuality research...
  
  
• Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
  Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
  The Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality is a non-accredited degree-granting institution and resource center in the field of sexology located in San Francisco, California. Degree and certificate programs focus on public health, sex therapy, and sexological research...
  
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• Institute of Family and Sexuality Studies
• International Academy of Sex Research (IASR)
  International Academy of Sex Research
  The International Academy of Sex Research 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 unique among sexology organizations in that individuals must...
  
  
• International Association of Sexual Medicine (IAS-M)
• International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS)
• International Association for the Treatment of Sexual Offenders (IATSO)
• International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM)
• International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH)
• Magnus Hirschfeld Archive of Sexology
  Magnus Hirschfeld
  Magnus Hirschfeld was a German physician and sexologist. An outspoken advocate for sexual minorities, Hirschfeld founded the Scientific Humanitarian Committee, which Dustin Goltz called "the first advocacy for homosexual and transgender rights."-Early life:Hirschfeld was born in Kolberg in a...
  
   at the Humboldt University of Berlin
  Humboldt University of Berlin
  The Humboldt University of Berlin is Berlin's oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt, whose university model has strongly influenced other European and Western universities...
  
  
• National Association for the Treatment of Abusers (NOTA)
• Sexology SA & The Academy for Sexology
• South Asia Institute for Human Sexuality
• Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS)
  Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States
  The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States is a lobbying organization and advocacy group dedicated to sex and sexuality education, sexual health, and sexual rights...
  
  
• Society for Sex Therapy and Research (SSTAR)
• Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues
• Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
  Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health
  Society for the Advancement of Sexual Health is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting public and professional awareness and understanding of addictive/compulsive sexual behavior and its associated negative consequences. It was originally formed under the name National Council on Sexual...
  
  
• Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS)
  Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality
  The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality , formed in 1957, is a non-profit, professional membership organization that says it is "the oldest professional society dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about sexuality." It reports to have more than 1,000 members and has a quarterly...
  
  
• World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) (Previously, the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association)

Research Institutions

• Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
  Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction
  The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction is a nonprofit research institute at Indiana University. It was established in Bloomington, Indiana in 1947...
  
  ; Bloomington, IN, USA
• Kurt Freund Laboratory
  Kurt Freund
  Kurt Freund was a Czech-Canadian physician and sexologist best known for developing phallometry , research studies in pedophilia, and for the "courtship disorder" hypothesis as a taxonomy of certain paraphilias Kurt Freund (17 January 1914–23 October 1996) was a Czech-Canadian physician and...
  
  ; Toronto, Canada