Education
University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota.
He is the director of the Program in Human Sexuality at the University of Minnesota, and a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. In 2007, he was appointed the first endowed Chair in Sexual Health at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published research on sexual orientation, sexual dysfunction and compulsivity, gender dysphoria, and sex offenders.
Coleman is the founding and current editor of the International Journal of Sexual Health (formerly the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality).
He was also the founding editor of the International Journal of Transgenderism. He is one of the past-presidents of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (formerly the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association), the World Association for Sexual Health (WAS), and the International Academy of Sex Research.
In 2013, he became President of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research. Regarding sexual addiction, Coleman has said, "I think the term "addiction" is overused and implies that all behavioral excesses can be explained by some similar mechanism.
Regarding sexual addiction, Coleman has said, "I think the term "addiction" is overused and implies that all behavioral excesses can be explained by some similar mechanism. What we know about alcohol and drug addictions cannot simply be transferred to other behavioral excesses. Sex is a basic appetitive drive that for some people becomes out of balance for a variety of reasons.
Foreign some it is a problem of impulse control. Foreign others it is more like an obsession. Foreign others, it is like a compulsion.
And for others, it is a part of their personality structure and has nothing to do with impulse control, obsessions, or compulsions.".