Tearoom Trade Laud Humphreys

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.

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. He influenced generations of scholars who research. He was a charter member of the tearkom academy of sex research. Impersonal sex in public places is a 1970 book by laud humphreys humphreys book is based on his 1968 ph d.

Humphreys is best known for his published ph d. The tearoom trade study is a study by laud humphreys conducted in 1970 to obtain information on male homoerotic behaviors that occurred in public bathrooms. Laud humphreys died in from lung cancer. 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.

Without disclosing his role as a sociology researcher humphreys played the role of watchqueen that is he looked out for intruders while men performed. An exchange in norman k. He is noted for his research into sexual encounters between men in public bathrooms published as tearoom trade 1970 and for the questions that emerged from what many believe to be unethical research methods. Perhaps not surprisingly given the topic the research was highly controversial however this was not just due to its sensitive subject matter.

Gay slang and cottaging in british english. A study of homosexual encounters in public places the study is an analysis of male male sexual behavior in public toilets. Humphreys asserted that the men participating in such activity came from diverse social backgrounds. Humphreys argued his deception was justified as the acts were so stigmatised he would not have got the information otherwise.

In the 1960s in los angeles supposed homosexual behavior was a felony charge under the law. 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. Robert allan laud humphreys october 16 1930 in chickasha oklahoma august 23 1988 was an american sociologist and author. Laud humphreys and the tearoom sex study.