Ira L Reiss
Biographic Data
| ID | 5176830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ira L Reiss |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ira L |
| FAMILY NAME | Reiss |
| SIGNATURE | REISS I L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 80 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 270 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 80 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
A Sociological Perspective
Exploring the Relation of Values, Power, and Advocacy in American Sexual Science
There is widespread acceptance by American sexual scientists of the need to be aware of our values and control their potential biasing effect. Despite this belief, there is a lack of consensus among sexual scientists concerning whether we should advocate for or against policy issues that come before Congress and impact our field. Also, even though in the United States we are dealing with a society of 316 million people, sexual scientists have oft…
In Memory of Albert Ellis (1913–2007)
I knew Albert Ellis as a friend for more than 50 years. I will try to afford the reader insight into the Albert Ellis I knew. Al did not do much small talk or attend many cocktail parties—he focuse
Special Reviewers
The Autobiography of a Sex Researcher
Cet expose autobiographique illustre l'influence durable que peuvent avoir le milieu familial et l'entourage sur la vie personnelle et sur la carriere universitaire. Il explique son interet precoce pour la sexualite, interet qui n'allait jamais se dementir avec une brillante carriere de sexologue
In memory of Floyd Martinson
(2000). In memory of Floyd Martinson. The Journal of Sex Research: Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 391-391
Evaluating Sexual Science
(1999). Evaluating Sexual Science: Problems and Prospects. Annual Review of Sex Research: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 236-271
Postmodern Sexualities
The future of sex research and the meaning of science
One major source of discord within sex research is the conceptual confusion concerning the meaning of science. The older positivistic stance has been increasingly rejected by scientists, and a newer postpositivist perspective has been developed, but many sex researchers are not fully cognizant of these changes. The importance and nature of these recent changes for sex research are discussed and illustrated with examples from research on HIV/AIDS,…
An End to Shame
An End to Shame
Evaluating strategies to avoid Aids
A probability model based on the best estimates we have today for prevalence and infectivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been developed. The model is used to compare the two most widely publicized risk reduction strategies: (1) Reducing the number of partners and (2) Using condoms. The results indicate that under almost all conditions of prevalence and infectivity, consistent and careful condom use is a far more effective method of …
Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson
Ira L. Reiss, Susan Sprecher, Kathleen McKinney, Robert Walsh, Carrie Anderson, Is This My Scale? Response to a Revision of the Reiss PSP Scale by Sprecher, McKinney, Walsh, and Anderson, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 51, No. 4 (Nov., 1989), pp. 1079-1082
Out of Sexuality
Varieties of Sexual Experience
Journey into Sexuality
A Sociological Journey into Sexuality
The Freudian, Marxian, and sociobiological explanations of sexuality are not well designed for answering questions concerning differences among societies or groups in their sexual lifestyles. A macro-level, societal explanation of sexuality is needed to answer such questions. Such a theory is lacking in sociology but is developed in this paper. Sexuality is defined as a societal product whose importance lies more in its physical pleasure and self…
Journey into Sexuality
A Need for Integration and Explanation
Paradise regained? A reply to Moser
ELLIS, H. Sexual inversion. In Studies in the psychology of sex (Vol.1). New York: Random House, 1936 (originally published 1896). HARTMAN, W., & FITHIAN, M. Treatment of sexual dysfunction. New York: Jason Aronson, 1974 (originally published, 1972). KINSEY, A. C., POMEROY, W. B., & MARTIN, C. E. Sexual behauior in the human male. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co., 1948. KINSEY, A. C., POMEROY, W. B., MARTIN, C. E., & GEBHARD, P. H. Sexual behavio…
Four Marriage and Family Texts
Sexual Preference
Trouble in paradise
The scientific study of sexuality has achieved a level of development and a form that often goes unappreciated even by some who are part of this field. In this article I attempt to clarify some aspects of the nature of this field. This is more than a state of the field article; an attempt is made to integrate and to organize our thinking in this area by examining two positions: (a) the lack of any developed global sexual science discipline, and r…
A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940
The Mosher Survey
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Among Negroes and Whites
Results from a sample of 903 students and 1515 adults indicate that Negroes and whites differ considerably in the ways in which premarital sexual attitudes are produced and maintained. The white group is less permissive, and its permissiveness is inversely related to church attendance and belief in romantic love and positively related to the number of times in love. In the Negro group these associations were either absent or in the opposite direc…
A Sociological Journey into Sexuality
The Freudian, Marxian, and sociobiological explanations of sexuality are not well designed for answering questions concerning differences among societies or groups in their sexual lifestyles. A macro-level, societal explanation of sexuality is needed to answer such questions. Such a theory is lacking in sociology but is developed in this paper. Sexuality is defined as a societal product whose importance lies more in its physical pleasure and self…
The Scaling of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Guttman scales for measuring premarital sexual permissiveness are presented and analyzed. The scales have been tested on national adult samples and on student samples. A difference appears in the scale order of questions for the high permissive and low permissive groups. This difference centers about the high permissive groups giving less relative support to affectionless kissing and petting behavior while giving more relative support to coital b…
Evaluating strategies to avoid Aids
A probability model based on the best estimates we have today for prevalence and infectivity of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has been developed. The model is used to compare the two most widely publicized risk reduction strategies: (1) Reducing the number of partners and (2) Using condoms. The results indicate that under almost all conditions of prevalence and infectivity, consistent and careful condom use is a far more effective method of …
Premarital Sex as Deviant Behavior
Social Class and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Data from samples of 903 students and 1515 adults were used to investigate the hypothesis that persons of higher social status are less permissive than lower-status persons regarding premarital sexual behavior. In neither sample did the expected negative relation between class and permissiveness appear, but among persons displaying conservative characteristics generally, the relationship was negative. Among those with liberal characteristics, the…
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
There has been a growing volume of research into sexual behaviour in urbanindustrial societies since 1948, when Kinsey and his associates first published The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Male. The increase of publications in this field is undoubtedly to be welcomed, but it must be noted that with few exceptions the quality of research leaves much to be desired. Scant attention has been paid to the general theoretical implications of problems suc…
Trouble in paradise
The scientific study of sexuality has achieved a level of development and a form that often goes unappreciated even by some who are part of this field. In this article I attempt to clarify some aspects of the nature of this field. This is more than a state of the field article; an attempt is made to integrate and to organize our thinking in this area by examining two positions: (a) the lack of any developed global sexual science discipline, and r…
Family Systems in America
The Universality of the Family
George P. Murdock's conception of the universal aspects of the family is examined by reference to the ethnographic literature. The results indicate that the nuclear family is not universal and that only the nurturant socialization function is universal. A revised conception of the family is offered which views the family institution as a small kinship structured group with the key function of nurturant socialization of the newborn. Nuturant socia…
Some Observations on Ideology and Sexuality in America
In the last several years the public debate on sexuality has increasingly indicated that strong ideological biases are operating in our sexual lives. In order to illustrate and scientifically analyze these biases, five substantive areas of public controversy are examined for evidence of our ideological tenets concerning human sexuality: (1) abortion, (2) genetic differences, (3) exploitation and pornography, (4) sexual normality, and (5) sexual h…
Family
Comparative Family Systems
Premarital Contraceptive Usage
A sample of 482 females from a large Midwestern university attending a contraceptive clinic was observed in terms of comparing those attending and not attending the clinic and those who had sought contraceptive advice from a private physician. 5 hypotheses were observed asserting that the following factors positively influence the seeking of contraceptive assistance: 1) endorsement of sexual choice; 2) self-assurance 3) early sex education in the…
A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness
Ira L. Reiss, Ronald E. Anderson, G. C. Sponaugle, A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Extramarital Sexual Permissiveness, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 395-411
The Sexual Renaissance
Sexual Codes in Teen-Age Culture
The research evidence on sexual codes seems somewhat at odds with the popular view that teen-agers have a type of youth culture which, in its irresponsibility, extremism, and defiance, is in sharp conflict with the adult culture. The venereal disease rates, unwed motherhood rates, and studies of teen-age attitudes give evidence of a more conservative behavior pattern than exists for older couples. The most popular teen-age sexual codes are the do…
Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality
The future of sex research and the meaning of science
One major source of discord within sex research is the conceptual confusion concerning the meaning of science. The older positivistic stance has been increasingly rejected by scientists, and a newer postpositivist perspective has been developed, but many sex researchers are not fully cognizant of these changes. The importance and nature of these recent changes for sex research are discussed and illustrated with examples from research on HIV/AIDS,…
Contemporary Theories about the Family
How & why America’s sex standards are changing
Premarital Sexual Standards in America
A Social History of American Family Sociology, 1865-1940
"Comments on Middendorp's "The Determinants of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Marriage and Family Interaction
The Double Standard in Premarital Sexual Intercourse
Journal Article The Double Standard in Premarital Sexual Intercourse: A Nelected Concept Get access Ira L. Reiss Ira L. Reiss College of William and Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 34, Issue 3, March 1956, Pages 224–230, https://doi.org/10.2307/2574041 Published: 01 March 1956
The Treatment of Pre-Marital Coitus in "Marriage and the Family" Texts
The Treatment of Pre-Marital Coitus in “Marriage and the Family” Texts Get access Ira L. Reiss Ira L. Reiss 1Department of Sociology and Anthropology, College of William d Mary Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 4, Issue 4, 1 April 1957, Pages 334–338, https://doi.org/10.2307/799291 Published: 09 August 2014
The Treatment of Pre-Marital Coitus in "Marriage and the Family" Texts
Toward a Sociology of the Heterosexual Love Relationship
Premarital Sexual Standards in America
Sexual Codes in Teen-Age Culture
The research evidence on sexual codes seems somewhat at odds with the popular view that teen-agers have a type of youth culture which, in its irresponsibility, extremism, and defiance, is in sharp conflict with the adult culture. The venereal disease rates, unwed motherhood rates, and studies of teen-age attitudes give evidence of a more conservative behavior pattern than exists for older couples. The most popular teen-age sexual codes are the do…
Premarital Sexual Standards in America
Consistency and Sexual Ethics
Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Among Negroes and Whites
Results from a sample of 903 students and 1515 adults indicate that Negroes and whites differ considerably in the ways in which premarital sexual attitudes are produced and maintained. The white group is less permissive, and its permissiveness is inversely related to church attendance and belief in romantic love and positively related to the number of times in love. In the Negro group these associations were either absent or in the opposite direc…
Marriage and Family Interaction
The Scaling of Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Guttman scales for measuring premarital sexual permissiveness are presented and analyzed. The scales have been tested on national adult samples and on student samples. A difference appears in the scale order of questions for the high permissive and low permissive groups. This difference centers about the high permissive groups giving less relative support to affectionless kissing and petting behavior while giving more relative support to coital b…
Virgin Wives
Social Class and Campus Dating
Social Class and Campus Dating
Journal Article Social Class and Campus Dating Get access Ira L. Reiss Ira L. Reiss 1University of Iowa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 13, Issue 2, Autumn 1965, Pages 193–205, https://doi.org/10.2307/798903 Published: 07 August 2014
Family
Comparative Family Systems
Social Class and Premarital Sexual Permissiveness
Data from samples of 903 students and 1515 adults were used to investigate the hypothesis that persons of higher social status are less permissive than lower-status persons regarding premarital sexual behavior. In neither sample did the expected negative relation between class and permissiveness appear, but among persons displaying conservative characteristics generally, the relationship was negative. Among those with liberal characteristics, the…
The Universality of the Family
George P. Murdock's conception of the universal aspects of the family is examined by reference to the ethnographic literature. The results indicate that the nuclear family is not universal and that only the nurturant socialization function is universal. A revised conception of the family is offered which views the family institution as a small kinship structured group with the key function of nurturant socialization of the newborn. Nuturant socia…
Nymphomania
Hayes, 'Item Order and Guttman Scales
The Sexual Renaissance
Contraceptive information and sexual morality
The question of the possible effects of contraceptive information, particularly on the sexual behavior of teen-age females has not been systematically investigated by comparing two matched groups of girls, one of which has been given contraceptive information and the other not. It is, however, an important one in the minds of many people and thus it is imperative to probe this area despite the lack of full empirical evidence. The first area that …
Sociological Aspects of Homosexuality
The Sexual Behaviour of Young People
There has been a growing volume of research into sexual behaviour in urbanindustrial societies since 1948, when Kinsey and his associates first published The Sexual Behaviour of the Human Male. The increase of publications in this field is undoubtedly to be welcomed, but it must be noted that with few exceptions the quality of research leaves much to be desired. Scant attention has been paid to the general theoretical implications of problems suc…
Sex and the College Student
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