A01=Laud Humphreys
Anal Intercourse
Author_Laud Humphreys
Category=JBCC
Census
Close Circuit Tv
Closet Queens
Covert Deviant
covert observation ethics
Deposit Box
Donald P. Warwick
Elliot Liebow
encounters
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ethical issues in field research
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Gaming Encounters
Glory Holes
homosexual identity studies
Humphreys Laud
Impersonal Sex
Insertee Role
Myron Glazer
Park Restrooms
Public Restrooms
public space sexuality
qualitative sociology
Safe Deposit Box
sexual behaviour research
social deviance analysis
Social Health Survey
Tearoom Activity
Tearoom Encounters
Tearoom Game
Tearoom Participants
Tearoom Sex
Tearoom Trade
Teen Agers
Violate
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780202302836
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Dec 1975
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From the time of its first publication, 'Tearoom Trade' engendered controversy. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally self-effacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. The book was quickly recognized as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of "deviant" sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restrooms—"tearooms" in the argot—the book explored the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality was kept from their families and neighbors. By posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study. This enlarged edition of 'Tearoom Trade' includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. The material added includes a perspective on the social scientist at work and the ethical problems to which that work may give rise, along with debate by the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.
Laud Humphreys received his divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and spent fourteen years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church. After returning to graduate school, he received his PhD in sociology from Washington University in 1968. Dr. Humphreys taught at SUNY Albany, Southern Illinois University, and until his death in 1988 was professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
