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Introduction
submit their manuscripts. We feel it is important to encourage the
more experienced researchers worldwide to present original papers
that will serve to contribute to the advancement of sexological
knowledge. In order to insure the scientific quality of this periodical,
the manuscripts submitted will be evaluated by three examiners
known for their scientific competence. Each issue will feature a
specifie theme which will be prepared under the responsibility of a
guest co-editor. The intention of the articles gathered under a basic
theme is not to exhausting the subject, but rather, to coincide with the
objective of the joural, that is, to promote the study of the multiple
facets of specific issues by using various tools and approaches.
Researchers will also be able to submit articles with contents other
than the themes proposed.
Besides these editorial considerations, it seems important to
implement certain ideas that could serve as both a reference for the
direction of the periodical and a motivating aspect for the authors.
Our first objective is to ob tain contributions from authors working i
various fields of study. In naming the present periodical Sexological
Review, it was not our intention to limit its access to sexologists, but
to open the door to aIl other disciplines in order to ensure the
interdisciplinary aspect of sexology that has been the focus since its
very beginnings.
The pioneers of modem sexology, Bloch, Hirschfeld and Havelock
Ellis, have proposed a global approach to the scientific study of
sexuality by favoring the contributions of the different scientific
disciplines. Sexology has nothing to gain by isolating itself. On the
contrary, its cooperative work has enabled the establishment of
relations with other fields and thus the exchange and communication
of ideas and research results. This cooperation constitutes the driving
force behind the progress of scientific knowledge on sexuality.
Our second objective is to encourage the use of various analytical
methods. In wanting to create a scientific journal, it go es without
saying that we favor the experimental approach that seeks to explain
the studied reality by using precise and rigorous observations. The
depth and complexity of this topic requires that we pay attention not
only to "objective" but also to "subjective" topics, while keeping in
mind the non logical, unusual and multicoloured facets of sexuality.
We believe that the advantage of a prospective approach to sexology
presupposes the coexistence of diversified methods, both quantitative
and qualitative.
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