Scientific Missions
Exchange knowledge through interdisciplinary research and collaboration.
Educational Programmes
Action Training Schools, courses, teaching materials and sexual health games.
Media
Press releases, results and facts about our action.
Let us introduce ourselves
A few words about us
The European Sexual Medicine Network (ESMN) is an international network of medical science researchers and practitioners, educators and social service professionals involved with sexual health and medicine. ESMN allows us to pool our talents, training and time in order to expand and deliver up-to-the-minute sexual health and medicine programs and services through the European Community.
The network’s fundamental objective is to improve sexual health – a state of physical, emotional, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality – at individual, family, community and health system levels. Sexual medicine serves as the vehicle to reach this objective.
With this in mind, our working goals as network professionals are:
1) to open doors of opportunity to medical and social scientists whose discoveries and practices will extend the scope of the field
2) to prepare sexual medical curricula for university education that meet European qualification and recognition standards
3) to build public understanding that sexual health and sexual medicine contribute significantly to good health and well-being for people everywhere.
Podcasts
Research into the processes that explain high sexual distress and low sexual pleasure can help clinicians to shape their interventions to improve people's sexual well-being. We looked at a specific set of transdiagnostic factors, repetitive negative thinking, and found these to be a promising area for research.
Pascoal, P. M., Raposo, C. F., & Roberto, M. S. (2020). A transdiagnostic approach to sexual distress and sexual pleasure: A preliminary mediation study with repetitive negative thinking. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(21), 7864. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17217864
van Lankveld, J.J.D.M., van de Wetering, F.T., Wylie, K. & Scholten, R.J.P.M. (2021). Bibliotherapy for sexual dysfunctions: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Sexual Medicine [E-Publication]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2020.12.009
Recent Posts
Working Group 1 online meeting
Open position International Planned Parenthood Foundation
ToR_Research Consultancy YVYC_29Mar2021Working Group 2 online meeting
Virtual ESMN Day incl. 3rd Management Committee Meeting
On March 12, 2021 we had a virtual meeting of all ESMN members. In the morning program, the 3rd MC...Sexual life in times of Covid-19
The Natsal COVID study in UK captured change in sexual behaviour, sexual relationships and sexual health (SRH) service use in...Working Group 1 Online Meeting
Working Group 1 online meeting
New video on sexual medicine curriculum
Working Group 3 is working on a curriculum for education in sexual medicine for university students in medicine and psychology....Working Group 2 online meeting
Working Group 4: online meeting
Tuesday January 19, 14.00 PM to 15.00 PMInformation
