Gunter Schmidt

Who is Gunter Schmidt?

Gunter Schmidt is a German sexologist, psychotherapist and social psychologist. He was born in Berlin.

Schmidt was director of the section for sexual research in the clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf. He started many projects for research over sexuality and biographies. He was director of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sexualforschung and president of International Academy of Sex Research.

He is the director of a research project Pregnancy and Abortion by Young Women and a member of the board of directors for the organisation pro familia, an NGO for sexual and reproductive health and rights in Germany.

Together with Martin Dannecker and Volkmar Sigusch, he is editor of Beiträge zur Sexualforschung, which is published by Psychosozial-Verlag. Schmidt is also co-editor of the magazine Zeitschrift für Sexualforschung in Georg Thieme Verlag.

Schmidt has written extensively on the sociological status of pederasty in modern society.