Tearoom Trade Laud Humphreys Summary

In tearoom trade 1970 1975 laud humphreys writes about the homosexual relations that took place in various tearooms i e public bathrooms in an unidentified american city during the mid to late 1960s.

Tearoom trade laud humphreys summary.

A study of homosexual encounters in public places the study is an analysis of male male sexual behavior in public toilets. The tearoom sex study. Humphreys is best known for his published ph d. In 1970 laud humphreys then a washington university phd student wrote his infamous thesis tearoom trade which was a study of homosexual behaviour between men in public toilets in a u s.

The men involved in this tearoom trade as it is called came from all walks of life and many were married and living otherwise straight lives. Without telling people that he was studying them laud humphreys 1975 observed hundreds of homosexual acts among men in st. Laud humphreys about the author seminary student with the episcopal church first encounter with homosexual subculture professor of sociology at pitzer college most famous publication was the tearoom trade 1975 only declared his homosexuality many years after undertaking the research making him an outsider in the very covert. By laud humphreys fair use this is a summary article by humphreys which appeared in a sociology reader sociology full circle edited by william feigelman ny.

The tearoom trade study from 1965 to 1968 laud humphreys an ordained episcopalian minister conducted dissertation research on men who have impersonal sex with men humphreys 1970. Impersonal sex in public places laud humphreys 1970 laud humphreys a sociologist recognized that the public and the law enforcement authorities hold highly simplistic stereotyped beliefs about men who commit impersonal sexual acts with one another in public restrooms. Impersonal sex in public places is a 1970 book by laud humphreys humphreys book is based on his 1968 ph d. Buck child 10 11 06 reading summary.

Without disclosing his role as a sociology researcher humphreys played the role of watchqueen that is he looked out for intruders while men performed. 259 277 this was and still is a controversial participant observation by him in the early 70 s due both to its subject matter deviance and its. Stormie perea laud humphreys tea room trade. Impersonal sex in public places 1970 is commonly presented in many sociological methods texts as an example of covert and deceptive research methods that endangered subjects without their consent lenza 2004 p.

Humphreys asserted that the men participating in such activity came from diverse social backgrounds. By pretending to be a simple voyeur humphreys explains that he systematically observed these activities and even recorded the license plate numbers of a sample of tearoom. Dissertation tearoom trade 1970 an ethnographic study of anonymous male male sexual encounters in public toilets a practice known as tea rooming in u s. Humphreys s study produced very important results.

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