About Forensic Sexology
An independent platform for informed practice, research and harm reduction
Forensic Sexology brings together clinical knowledge, legal understanding, safeguarding, research and responsible public education in a field that is often complex, fragmented and sensationalised.
Why the platform exists
Better knowledge supports safer decisions
Questions involving sexual offending, online harm, coercion, relationship violence, risk, treatment and rehabilitation arise across therapy, justice, safeguarding and public life. Reliable and accessible clinical material is not always easy to find.
The platform creates space for evidence-informed, ethically framed material that supports accountability, prevention, treatment, safer practice and the people, partners and families affected by harm.
Our purpose
Three commitments guide the work
Reduce harm
Support prevention, early help-seeking, proportionate safeguarding and responses that take victims, affected families and wider public safety seriously.
Strengthen practice
Translate evidence into clinically meaningful material for assessment, formulation, intervention, rehabilitation, supervision and multidisciplinary work.
Improve understanding
Encourage careful public and professional discussion that distinguishes evidence from opinion and avoids both minimisation and sensationalism.
Who the platform serves
Three routes into the resource
For the public
Clear information for people seeking to understand sexual offending, help-seeking, treatment, safety and support.
Explore public informationFor clinical professionals
Material for qualified therapists, psychologists and other practitioners working with sexual harm, risk or rehabilitation.
Explore clinical resourcesFor legal professionals
Clinically grounded information for solicitors, barristers and legal teams working with sexual-offence cases.
Explore legal resourcesScope and approach
Clinically grounded and legally aware
The platform considers prevention and early intervention, sexual offending, assessment and formulation, digital sexual harm, therapeutic intervention, rehabilitation and desistance, domestic abuse and coercive control, victim and whole-family impact, diversity and disability, ethics, law, governance and safeguarding.
Its approach is evidence-informed, human-rights aware, survivor- and family-conscious, culturally responsive and attentive to the limits of research, assessment tools and professional certainty.
Important distinctions
Forensic Sexology distinguishes sexual interest, sexual behaviour, psychological disorder, offending and risk. These terms are not interchangeable. Material is written to support professional reasoning and public understanding, not to diagnose individuals or determine the facts of a specific case.
Governance and editorial independence
Building authority transparently
Forensic Sexology is developing an editorial and advisory network to broaden expertise, strengthen review and support responsible publication. Authors, sources, affiliations, conflicts and limitations are identified wherever appropriate.
The platform is not currently a membership association, regulator or representative body. Its organisational structure and contributor arrangements will develop transparently as the resource grows.
Editorial responsibility
Publication does not imply endorsement by a regulator, professional body, employer or partner organisation. Unless stated otherwise, views are those of the named author.
Read our editorial standardsFounder and editor
Editorial leadership with specialist clinical experience
Forensic Sexology was founded by Simon Wilson, a psychotherapist, educator and researcher whose work spans psychosexual psychotherapy, sexual offending, relationship violence, advanced professional education, research, governance and harm reduction.
Simon provides editorial direction and contributes to the platform alongside a developing network of authors and advisers. The long-term purpose is to build a credible organisational resource whose authority rests on transparent standards, relevant expertise and responsible collaboration rather than on one individual voice.
Independent but connected
Education and professional services
Education through IoPP
The Institute of Psychosexual Psychotherapy provides advanced specialist education for qualified therapists and applied psychologists, including the Level 7 Diploma in Forensic Sexology. Forensic Sexology retains its own editorial identity.
Visit IoPPClinical and professional services
Simon Wilson Therapy is a separate service through which independent clinical or professional enquiries may be considered. This platform itself does not provide therapy or accept legal instructions.
Visit Simon Wilson TherapyContribute to the developing field
We welcome future contributions from clinicians, researchers, legal professionals, safeguarding practitioners and others with relevant expertise. Contributions should be evidence-informed, ethically framed and free from identifiable or confidential case material.
Contact the editorial team Explore the research agendaImportant: Information on this platform is educational. It is not a substitute for individual clinical, legal, risk-assessment, safeguarding or emergency advice.
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