Antedating of "Sexology"

[Baker, John]

        I believe that's "philosophy of life," not "philosophy life."  One web page gives credit for coining the term to Willard, who unlike later sexologists apparently regarded sex as more or less a loathsome thing.

John Baker


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sexology (OED 1902)

1867 Elizabeth Willard  (title) Sexology as the philosophy life: implying
social organization and government.

Fred Shapiro