An Insider&#039;s View of Sexual Science since Kinsey

Ira L. Reiss

doi:10.5771/9781461636496

Summary

In a personal, nontechnical, and informal style, eminent researcher Ira L. Reiss discusses the many situations he has encountered during the past fifty years while researching sexuality and developing useful and innovative explanations of its different aspects. Most of the problems that were present during those years are still confronting those who work on human sexuality. Reiss discusses his experiences in sexual science in areas such as premarital sex, the sexual revolution, Masters and Johnson's therapy, feminism and sexuality, crises in sexual organizations, responses to HIV/AIDS, child and adolescent sexuality, radical social constructionism, biology versus sexual science, international trends, and the movement toward a Ph.D. in sexual science. The insights and solutions Reiss proposes are of great importance to all those who are interested in the sexual issues that affect people today.

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Copyright year: 2006
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7425-4653-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4616-3649-6
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 239
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
1. Anti...Semitism in the 1930s No access
2. Prostitution and the Depression No access
3. Religious Indoctrination No access
4. The Double Standard in Sexuality No access
5. Anti...Semitism in the Army No access
6. A Little Bit of Sex Education No access
7. Getting My Degree: Some Key Events No access
1. The 1950s Culture No access
2. Antisex Bias in Family Textbooks No access
3. The Admiral and the College of William and Mary No access
4. Questioning High School Students about Sex in the 1950s No access
5. Publishing on Sexuality in Journals in the 1950s No access
6. Trying to Publish My First Book No access
7. A Minor Clash with Radio Censorship No access
1. Ancient Roots of Modern Science No access
2. The Ethical Side of Science No access
3. Political Distortions of Science No access
4. Advocacy and Science No access
5. Value Aware, Value Fair, and Premarital Abstinence No access
6. Linking Personal Values to Personal Assumptions No access
7. The Tentativeness of Science No access
8. Summing Up Science No access
1. Sexual Standards at the Dawn of the Sexual Revolution No access
2. The Mythical Place of the Pill in the 1960s Revolution No access
3. Albert Ellis and the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex No access
4. Richard Green: A New Journal and an International Academy No access
5. Other Sexuality Organizations Spring Forth No access
6. The Value of Sexuality Organizations No access
7. Hugh Hefner's Party at the Chicago Playboy Mansion No access
1. Getting to Know Masters and Johnson: 1962+ No access
2. The Sexual Attitudes Reassessment Movement Begins No access
3. The New Program in Human Sexuality at Minnesota No access
4. The New Sexual Dogma: The SAR in San Francisco No access
1. The Empirical Basis of the Autonomy Theory No access
2. Proposition One: Changing Sexual Permissiveness No access
3. Some Reactions to the Autonomy Theory No access
4. Why Was Gender Equality and Sexual Pluralism So Strong in Sweden? No access
5. The Swedish Culture in Action at Dalarna No access
6. A Swedish Panel Discusses Sexuality No access
7. Historical Factors Promoting Gender Equality in Sweden No access
8. Sweden and Autonomy Theory No access
1. The Federal Government's Victorian Standards No access
2. Unveiling the Feminine Mystique: NOW No access
3. The AMA: Even Doctors Want to Know about Sex No access
4. Fighting an Obscene Antipornography Bill No access
1. Wanted: One Gunslinger as President of SSSS No access
2. Baptism of Fire: September 1980 No access
3. Starting the Search for an Executive Director No access
4. Denouement in Dallas No access
5. April 9, 1981: Decision Day No access
1. Sex Therapy: The Program in Human Sexuality No access
2. Further Exploration: The Masters and Johnson Institute No access
3. Problems with Washington's Disease Fighters No access
1. The Linkage Theory No access
2. Defining Sexuality No access
3. Social Bonds: Pleasure and Disclosure No access
4. Three Universal Societal Linkages to Sexual Norms No access
5. Gender Power Differences No access
6. Societal Ideologies: Defining Sexual Normality No access
7. Kinship and Extramarital Sexual Jealousy No access
8. Summing Up the Linkage Theory of Sexuality No access
1. Early Reactions to HIV/AIDS No access
2. Sexual Therapists React to HIV/AIDS No access
3. Just How Risky Are Condoms? No access
4. Is Abstinence the Safest Strategy? No access
5. Sexual Pluralism: The Way to Reduce Our Sexual Problems No access
6. Sexual Pluralism Theory No access
7. Responses to Sexual Pluralism No access
1. The Governor's Committee on Child and Adolescent Sexual Health No access
2. Retirement: But Not from Sexual Science No access
3. Al Ellis and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy No access
1. Antiscience: Radical Social Constructionism No access
2. The Bush Administration's Hostility to Scientific Research in Sexuality No access
3. Sexnet Debates: Biology versus Social Science No access
4. The Interaction of Social and Biological Factors No access
5. Defining Gender Roles No access
1. Some Programs in Sexuality No access
2. Working toward a PhD in Sexual Science No access
3. The Essential Elements of a PhD in Sexuality: Making the Case No access
4. More Progress toward a PhD in Sexual Science No access
1. The Cultural Wars in Sexuality No access
2. Sexuality Trends around the World No access
3. Do Attitudes and Behaviors Correlate? No access
4. Explaining Trends in Sexuality No access
5. Future Goals No access
References No access Pages 213 - 226
Name Index No access Pages 227 - 232
Subject Index No access Pages 233 - 238
About the Author No access Pages 239 - 239