Tearoom Trade (Google eBook)

Laud Humphreys

Transaction Publishers, 2002

What people are saying

Review: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places

User Review  - Dusty Waltner - Goodreads

Only read if you want to see how not to do ethnographic research. His methods are deplorable and would never get IRB approval today.

Review: Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places

User Review  - Aja - Goodreads

I am torn here on stars. On the one hand the information was interesting and valuable, but on the other hand I found his research methods deplorable. This book is the graduate thesis of Laud Humphreys ...

Contents

• Public Settings for Private Encounters i: 1
• The Sociologist as Voyeur: 16
• Rules and Roles: 45
• Patterns of Collective Action: 59
• Risks of the Game: 81
• The People Next Door: 104
• The Breastplate of Righteousness: 131
• Kicks Commitment and Social Control: 149
• A Question of Ethics: 167
• Ethical Issues in Social Research: 175
• Ethical Issues in Social Research: 223
• Index: 233

Bibliographic information

• Title: Tearoom Trade
• Author: Laud Humphreys
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 2002
• ISBN: 0202369420, 9780202369426