We are pleased to announce preliminary contributors to the IASR 2026 Annual Meeting!

Additional symposium and plenary speaker proposals are under review, and brief oral and poster abstracts are still invited. Stay tuned for further updates in the coming months on the exciting sexual science that will be presented in Porto this summer!

Opening Symposium
Sex Research in Portugal
Pedro Nobre, Mariana Carrito, and Pedro Costa of University of Porto

Plenary Speaker
Scout, Executive Director of The Cancer Network
Talk Title TBA

Symposia

note: symposium order does not reflect conference order and speakers may change slightly

Behind a strong mask: Research and intervention perspectives on masculinity, trauma, and sexuality
Organizer: Natacha Godbout, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

  • Ateret Gerwitz-Maydan, University of Haifa, Israel. Men, sex, and trauma: Heterogeneous paths from childhood sexual abuse to adult sexual well-being

  • Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada. (Dis)similarity between partners’ childhood maltreatment and sexual satisfaction: A dyadic response surface analysis

  • Natacha Godbout, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Understanding male victimization, masculinity and sexuality: Findings and knowledge transfer initiative from the National Collective on Male Victimization (CNVAM)

Know, stroke, swell and reconstruct: The clitoris, the primary female pleasure organ
Organizer: Stephanie Both, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands

  • James Pfaus, Charles University, Czech Republic. Clitoral pleasure versus clitoral aversion in the rat: Effects on partner preference and brain activation

  • Stephanie Both, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Netherlands. Changes in clitoral volume in response to visual erotic stimulation in pre- and postmenopausal women

  • Jasmine Abdulcadir, University of Geneva, Switzerland. Psychosexual function after female genital mutilation/cutting: Advancing reconstructive and therapeutic approaches

  • Tanja Oschatz, Joahnnes-Gutenberg University Mainz & Medical School Hamburg, Germany. The influence of men partner’s sexual communal strength and clitoral knowledge on women’s orgasm and sexual pleasure: A dyadic analysis of women-men relationships