Laud Humphreys received his divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary and spent fourteen years in the ministry of the Episcopal Church. After returning to graduate school, he received his Ph.D. in sociology from Washington University in 1968. Dr. Humphreys taught at SUNY Albany, Southern Illinois University, and until his death in 1988 was professor of sociology at Pitzer College in Claremont, California.
From the time of its first publication, Tearoom Trade 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 posing as an initiate, the author was able to engage in systematic observation of homosexual acts in public settings, and later to develop a more complete picture of those involved by interviewing them in their homes, again without revealing their unwitting participation in his study.
This enlarged edition of Tearoom Trade includes the original text, together with a retrospect, written by Nicholas von Hoffman, Irving Louis Horowitz, Lee Rainwater, Donald P. Warwick, and Myron Glazer. 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 the book's initial critics and proponents. Humphreys added a postscript and his views on the opinion expressed in the retrospect.
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经典之作,对公共场所里的同性性行为的观察细致入微,理论解释的部分也颇有说服力。但我很怀疑作者在讲述研究方法的时候是否足够坦诚,毕竟他当时未公开出柜,也许会隐瞒一些田野观察时自身的行为以及取得被采访者信任的方法。p.s. 男票说,柏林的公园小树林里男男们如同本书里描述的那样沉默,然而清华大学小树林里大家却聊得很欢。有趣的对比。
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评分中文译作《茶室交易》,研究伦理道德的底线
评分我不是社会学的学生,这本书只能说让我大开了眼界,更让我没想到是1970年前后做出的研究。同性恋在如今这个社会,你说反对它,可以被口水淹死,但是有多少人真的想过同性恋和同性恋行为的区别。这本书给我最大的启发(1)在tearoom发生同性性交行为的,非同性恋已婚男居多数 (2)性是本能,但是当性行为和不负责任,追求刺激,无关个人情感联系在一起,我更理解上帝毁了所多玛的原因。(3) 作者认为公共场合同性性行为对社会不构成危害,所以不需要有社会条款和法律制裁,我不敢苟同。P.S. 有评论说作者因为课题调查过于敏感而被取消博士资格,我不明白了,难道当时IRB没有审过么?作者调查手法不对为何不在当时立即指出?所有信息不都是严格保密么?要是我一番辛苦博士论文完了却被取消资格,肯定气病!
评分非常完整和严谨的学术研究,研究同性性行为而非同性恋。第一章概括公共厕所的物理特质,第二章比喻偷窥狂讲述方法论(私以为并不涉及伦理道德),所使用的记录表格很专业,第三章谈及性行为中的规范和流动的角色扮演,第四章分步解释性行为具体发生的步骤(如何在没有语言表达下达成默契),为了避免攻受男女这些概念使用insertee/insertor和主动/被动。第五章谈及警察(可买通)、勒索逮捕、青少年骚扰和传染疾病的可能风险。第六章以隔壁人为标题,对参与群体进行婚姻和职业的四大分类,概括群体特质和表现。第七章谈论群体的政治经济文化立场,出乎意料的保守甚至维护体制。第八章总结公共厕所的便利、隐蔽、多样、不涉个人关系,均得到双方的或许,表达同性性行为的理解和些微辩护。此书的研究价值和历史意义值得五星 M
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