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British Journal of Sexual Medicine

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 23, 2025
Entity authorityQ4970208 ↗
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The British Journal of Sexual Medicine (abbreviated Br J Sex Med or BJSM) is a medical periodical, which was first published in 1973.

The first issue declared an intent "to provide authoritative and scientific knowledge on sexual problems and medical problems that have sexual implications to them. The journal will explore the purely clinical field as well as areas of related knowledge that can be brought to bear upon medical practice from the world of psychology, sociology and other behavioural sciences… we will not attempt to be tied to any one particular point of view with relation to human sexuality".

The remit of the journal has broadened to cover developments in HRT, contraception, oncology and HIV.

The BJSM is published by Hayward Medical Communications.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1973-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with British, Journal and Sexual providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “British Journal of Sexual Medicine” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.