Gunter Schmidt is a German

Germany

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 sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist.

Schmidt was director of the section for sexual research in the clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (Eppendorf

Eppendorf, Hamburg

Eppendorf is one of thirteen quarters in the Hamburg-Nord borough of Hamburg, Germany, and lies north of the Außenalster. In 2007 the population was 23,021.-History:...

). He started many projects for research over sexuality and biographies.

Schmidt was director of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung (DGfS) und president of International Academy of Sex Research

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...

(IASR). Today he is member in board of directors for organisation pro familia, where he is director of research project Pregnancy and abortion by young women. Schmidt wrote several books: Das große Der Die Das (!986), Das Verschwinden der Sexualmoral (1996) and Das neue Der Die Das (2004). Together with Martin Dannecker

Martin Dannecker

Martin Dannecker is a German sexologist and author.Dannecker was born in Oberndorf am Neckar. After his school, he studied Industriekaufmann, and later, he studied as an actor at a theatre school in Stuttgart. During this time, Dannecker came out and started to read literature on homosexuality...

 and Volkmar Sigusch

Volkmar Sigusch

Volkmar Sigusch is a German sexologist, physician and sociologist. He was from 1973 to 2006 director of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft [Institute for Sexual Science] at the clinic of the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main....

 he is editor of Beiträge zur Sexualforschung (87 editions), which is published by Psychosozial-Verlag. Schmidt is also co-editor of the magazine Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung in Georg Thieme Verlag.

Schmidt has written extensively on the sociological status of pederasty

Pederasty

Pederasty or paederasty is an intimate relationship between an adult and an adolescent boy outside his immediate family. The word pederasty derives from Greek "love of boys", a compound derived from "child, boy" and "lover".Historically, pederasty has existed as a variety of customs and...

 in modern society.

Books

• 1968 "Studenten-Sexualität" (gemeinsam mit Hans Giese)
• 1971 "Arbeiter-Sexualität" (gemeinsam mit Volkmar Sigusch)
• 1973 "Jugendsexualität" (gemeinsam mit Volkmar Sigusch)
• „Das große Der Die Das“, 1986.
• „Das Verschwinden der Sexualmoral“, 1996.
• „Sexuelle Verhältnisse“, Gießen, Psychosozial-Verlag, 1998.
• „Die Kinder der sexuellen Revolution“ (editor), Gießen
  Gießen
  Gießen, also spelt Giessen is a town in the German federal state of Hesse, capital of both the district of Gießen and the administrative region of Gießen...
  
  , Psychosozial-Verlag, 2000.
• „Sexualität und Spätmoderne“ (editor), Gießen, Psychosozial-Verlag, 2002.
• „Das neue Der Die Das“, Gießen , Psychosozial-Verlag, 2004.
• „Spätmoderne Beziehungswelten“, (together with Silja Matthiesen, Arne Dekker, Kurt Starke), 2006.

External links

• Literature by Gunter Schmidt in German National Library
• Beziehungsbiographien
• Jugendschwangerschaften