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Volkmar Sigusch (born June 11, 1940) 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.

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The sexual revolution of the 1960s was mostly a movement of young people. I felt that the so-called "free relationships" were overrated.

Movement, Overrated, People, Revolution, Young

Key feature of sexual revolution is the large-scale publication and commercialization of details that were once secret. Sexuality has been trivialized. The interesting thing about this is that exaggerated portrayals apparently destroy desire more effectively than any repression.

Interesting, Keys, Publication, Revolution, Secret, Sexual

I will always be referred to as a theorist, but I was only a fellow traveller with a degree.

Degrees, Fellows, Referred, Theorist, Traveller

Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.

Eye, Flush, Men, Sex, Sexual, Tremors

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

Female, Husband, Patient, Perversion, Secret

There are young men who want thrills but no longer value sex, so they do completely different things, including aggressive things.

Different, Longer, Men, Sex, Things

When it comes to sexuality, people like to tell lies. It's only when it comes to money that they lie more.

Lies, Like, Lying, People, Sexuality

It's important for a couple to talk about their sexual preferences. On the other hand, the aura of the mysterious should be preserved.

Couple, Hands, Important, Preferences, Talk

The things that could be derived from the sexual sphere - happiness, endless fun and the end of capitalism - were grossly overestimated. The symbolic overglorification was downright unbearable.

Downright, Fun, Spheres, Symbolic, Unbearable

I have the utmost respect for people who are asexual. I didn't believe that they existed at first. But they do exist, and their numbers are growing.

Asexual, Believe, Numbers, People, Utmost

There are many options in a marriage. If the couple has been together for a certain amount of time and has a certain amount of liberalism or life experience, it could be the kind of relationship in which one partner ventures into the occasional affair, which is then forgiven. This only happens every 13 years on average, but it obviously does occur.

Average, Couple, Options, Partner, Ventures, Years

Most young people seem to be behaving very intelligently: They look at things once in a while, but then they find it so idiotic and uncool that they just look away again. That is, provided they're not growing up in a family in which a drunk father is already watching pornos in the morning.

Drunk, Father, Growing Up, Idiotic, Look, Morning

Good sex can be anything, including dirty.

Dirty, Good Sex, Including, Sex

Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.

Contact, Impressive, Numbers, Permanent, Sexual

The social problem is that we haven't come up with any alternative models. Our culture hasn't developed an ars erotica. Think, for example, of conditions in India or in Japanese culture and of how the erotic has been cultivated there. They're not as clinical and rabbit-like as we are.

Erotic, Example, Japanese, Japanese Culture, Thinking

With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.

Consideration, Couple, Discreetly, Husband, Intelligent, Wife

Aura of the mysterious is a minor perversion that a couple shares. A fetish that one of the two partners finds arousing, or a particular sexual scenario. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Couple, Dirty, Particular, Poison, Two

The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.

And Love, Desire, Loneliness, Love, Speechlessness, Traits

Internet sexuality shows that we're becoming more and more self-involved. I'm talking about self-sex.

Becoming, Internet, Self, Sex, Sexuality, Talking

There are pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it.

Court, Force, Forces, Treatment

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