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scientia sexualis
Definition
Michel Foucault's term, in The History of Sexuality (1978), for the Western civilization's scientific approach to the study of sex, in distinction to the Eastern perception of sex as an art form, which he calls ars erotica.See also: ars erotica; art of pleasure.
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