This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.Find sources: "Charles Allen Moser" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful.Find sources: "Charles Allen Moser" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for biographies. Please help to demonstrate the notability of the topic by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond a mere trivial mention. If notability cannot be shown, the article is likely to be merged, redirected, or deleted.Find sources: "Charles Allen Moser" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Charles Allen Moser
Born1952
EducationInstitute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
Hahnemann University
OccupationPhysician
Known fortransgender health, sex education
Medical career
ProfessionPhysician
ResearchLGBT sexology, paraphilias

Charles Allen Moser (born 1952) is an American physician specializing in transgender health, a clinical sexologist, sex therapist, and sex educator practicing in San Francisco, California. He is the author of numerous academic publications and books in the fields of transgender health, paraphilias including BDSM, and sexual medicine.[1]

Early life and education

Moser obtained his Bachelors of Science degree in physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and a Master's in Social Work at the University of Washington in 1975. He obtained a Ph.D. at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in 1979, and his M.D. at Hahnemann University (Drexel) in Philadelphia. He interned at Mt. Zion and St. Mary’s Hospital in San Francisco.[1]

Career

Prior to obtaining his M.D. in 1991, Dr. Moser was a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California with a private psychotherapy practice specializing in the treatment of sexual issues.[1]

Dr. Moser was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Sexual Medicine at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.[1] The IASHS closed in 2018.[2]

He has authored papers alone and with Peggy Kleinplatz in the area of sex therapy, and the classification of paraphilias.[3] Moser and Kleinplatz argue that paraphilias should be removed from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).[4][5]

Honors

Moser is an inductee of the Society of Janus Hall of Fame.[6]

Works

Awards

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "San Francisco Transgender Institute - Charles Moser, PhD, MD". San Francisco Transgender Institute. 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  2. ^ Marsh, Amy (21 October 2019). "Troubled History of IASHS". AmyMarshSexologist.com. Retrieved 8 January 2023.
  3. ^ Goldberg, Abbie E. (10 May 2016). The SAGE Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies. SAGE Publications. p. 1030. ISBN 978-1-4833-7129-0. Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Klein Announces Winners of 2007 Sexual Intelligence Awards". Contemporary Sexuality. 41 (5): 14. May 2007 – via EBSCOhost.
  5. ^ Moser, Charles; Kleinplatz, Peggy J (2006). "DSM-IV-TR and the Paraphilias An Argument for Removal". Journal of Psychology & Human Sexuality. 17 (3–4): 91–109. doi:10.1300/j056v17n03_05. S2CID 7221862. in Karasic, Dan; Drescher, Jack (1 May 2014). Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. Routledge. pp. 91–110. ISBN 978-1-317-95457-6.
  6. ^ "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  7. ^ Charles Moser. "Charles Moser, PhD, MD, FACP" (professional CV). Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 12 January 2019.


Categories