ABSTRACT
Reprinted from ‘Impersonal Sex and Perceived Satisfaction” in James N. Heslin (ed.), Studies in the Sociology of Sex. Copyright © 1971 by Meredith Corporation. By permission of Appleton-Century-Crofts, Educational Division, Meredith Corporation. Laud Humphreys is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College. He has taught and done research in medical sociology and the sociology of deviance, crime, and legal institutions. He has carried out two classic studies of the situation of homosexuals in American society, the first, Tearoom Trade (Aldine Publishing Company, 1970), dealing with participants in homosexual behavior in public restrooms, and a second, Out of the Closet, describing the growth of the homosexual liberation movement during the latter part of the 1960s and the early 1970s. The first book was the winner of the C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
