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100 1 $aHumphreys, Laud.
245 10 $aTearoom trade :$bimpersonal sex in public places /$cLaud Humphreys.
250 $aEnlarged ed.$bwith a retrospect on ethical issues.
260 0 $aNew York :$bAldine Pub. Co.,$c1975.
300 $axviii, 238 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
440 0 $aObservations
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aPublic settings for "private" encounters -- Methods: the sociologist as voyeur -- Rules and roles -- Patterns of collective action -- Risks of the game -- The people next door -- The breastplate of righteousness -- Kicks, commitment, and social control -- Postscript: a question of ethics -- Retrospect: ethical issues in social research -- Sociological snoopers and journalistic moralizers / Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater -- Tearoom trade: means and ends in social research / Donald P. Warwick -- Impersonal sex / Myron Glazer -- Retrospect: ethical issues in social research / Laud Humphreys.
520 $aFrom the time of its first publication in 1970, this book 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 combining participant observation with structured as well as informal interviews, Tearoom Trade still furnishes a controversial example of recent social science methods. This enlarged edition includes the original text, together with a retrospect. 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 t.
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650 2 $aHomosexuality.
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