Life and Work
Originally a graduate from a language school (diplomas in French, English, Spanish, Arabic), Dr. Gindorf first worked as a translator. Attending night classes in economics, law, and social sciences he became a successful export merchant and eventually president/controlling share holder of an international corporation supplying capital goods to the Middle and Far East. Then he started on his sexological career, studying sexual science, sociology, and psychology at the University of Düsseldorf, at the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, San Francisco (CA), and at Maimonides University, Miami (FL; Ph.D. in Clinical Sexology). He was a Clinical Assistant Professor at the American Academy of Clinical Sexologists, Orlando (FL, U.S.A.).
Today he works as Director at the Institut für Lebens- und Sexualberatung (Institute for Sexual/Gay/AIDS-HIV Counseling) of the German Society for Social-Scientific Sexuality Research (DGSS) in Düsseldorf. He was Founding President (1971), President, Vice President, and now is Honorary President of the DGSS. - His main fields of interest are: gay and bisexuality research and counseling; sexual counseling and therapy; AIDS/HIV prevention and counseling; theoretical foundations of sexology; internet presentation of sexual science and counseling (1996 first German language sexological web site, meanwhile also in English).
He is the author and (co-)editor of more than 60 sexological publications, including eight books (two in English: Sexology Today. A Brief Introduction. Düsseldorf 1993, 141 pp.; Bisexualities. The Ideology and Practice of Sexual Contact with Both Men and Women. New York 1998, 270 pp., both with E. J. Haeberle) and two book series.
International activities, memberships, functions, and honors include: Scientific Advisor, Shanghai Sex Sociology Research Center; World Association for Sexual Health (WAS); European Federation of Sexology (EFS); Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS); Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS); Editorial Boards, Journal of Homosexuality and 'Sexuality and Culture'; International Scientific Committees, XIII. (1997, Valencia) and XIV. (1999, Hong Kong) World Congress of Sexology as well as 6. Congress of the European Federation of Sexology (2002, Limassol/Cyprus).
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