Colin J Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 85919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin J Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin J |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5808-8768 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 330 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Bisexuality
Bisexuality is a complex phenomenon involving fluidity in the sex/gender of desired partners and an identity label that is poorly recognized and understood. This contributes to misconceptions that feed into questioning the existence of bisexuality, whether bisexuals are hypersexual, and the extent to which they transmit sexually transmitted infections into the general population. It is also a sexuality that academically remains inadequately theor…
Trans Women Doing Sex in San Francisco
Trans Men
This article examines the experiences of 25 persons who were assigned female status at birth but do not wish to live as women and take on a masculine or queer gender identity. We employ the concept of “gendered embodiment” and introduce the concept of “sexualized embodiment” to highlight what is involved in this process. We ask how experiencing a masculine gender identity is reflexively tied to a trans man's sexuality and the ways in which these …
Bare Bodies
This article examines the role of nude embodiment as it affects sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure when people seek to align their nude body with cultural values. This research, based on open-ended and closed-ended data from 184 young heterosexual adults attending a large Midwestern university, finds the experience of nude embodiment and its effects to be strongly gendered. For example, among both men and women, comfort with one’s nude body is ass…
Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment
Men Sexually Interested in Transwomen (MSTW)
This article extends research on transgenderism by providing a sociological study of men who are sexually interested in transwomen (MSTW; viz., genetic males who use estrogen to feminize their body but retain their penis). We conducted fieldwork in a bar catering to transwomen and the men who were sexually interested in them, and did on-the-spot interviews with the MSTW. We initially examined the nature of MSTW's sexual attraction to transwomen, …
Fecal Matters
This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence. Researching 172 university students, we show how aspects of the socio-cultural context as “embodied” in four groups of participants (heterosexual women and men and non-heterosexual women and men) mediate the operation of the “fecal habitus”—that part of culture that interprets and organizes fecal events (Inglis 2000). The study finds that…
Zoophilia in Men
Men Sex Workers and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men
Bisexuals at Midlife
In the framework of a constructionist approach, a life-course point of view, and traditional concepts borrowed from identity theory, the authors report on a study of fifty-six San Francisco bisexuals. The data show that by midlife, changing life commitments among the participants were associated with a decrease in sexual involvement, a move toward sexual activity with just one sex, a decrease in contact with the bisexual subculture, and a decreas…
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
“If the shoe fits …”
This study of 262 respondents from an organization for homosexual and bisexual foot fetishists provides information from a broader sample than clinical cases and was guided by major ideas found in the literature on sexual fetishism. Some researchers see fetishism as the product of early learning experiences. Results of this study showed such experiences to occur around puberty and to be predominantly positive. Sources of learning were experiences…
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious-and potentially illuminating-variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of sexual behavior an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin Wei…
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS make greater awareness of all forms of sexual behaviour an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin W…
Homosexual foot fetishism
Sex and Morality in the U.S
This book presents the major findings from a national survey of American sexual norms and experiences. The survey was conducted in 1970 under the auspices of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University and is based on interviews with more than 3000 adults. The authors incorporate the data and interpretations from the interviews in this volume. SEX AND MORALITY IN THE US describes the degree to which survey respondents judged prostitution…
Black sexuality
Testing the theoretical statements of Alfred Kinsey and James Coleman regarding racial differences in sexual experience (Coleman, 1966; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948), data from three samples, covering the period 1938–70, are brought to bear on the following hypotheses: (a) Black men and women are more sexually permissive than white men and women, but such differences are more a function of social class than race (Kinsey); and (b) differences i…
Telling the Facts of Life
This study examines a telephone switchboard that provides sex information to anonymous callers. Telephone volunteers undergo a training program in which they are taught a philosophical charter about sex that they are expected to follow in handling calls. Once working the telephone, volunteers creatively apply this charter to make sense of the calls they receive. Charter concerns, it is argued, serve to organize volunteers' telephone activities
The Social Constituents of Sadomasochism
Traditional conceptions of sadomasochism are misleading. This is because they are not based on close examination of what the majority of SM participants actually do and how they interpret their own behaviors. Over a period of eight years, we interviewed a variety of SM participants and observed their behavior in many different settings. We found that sadomasochism was constituted by five social features: dominance and submission, role playing, co…
The Making of the Modern Homosexual
Sexual Embourgeoisment? Social Class and Sexual Activity
Using the idea of embourgeoisment, as it appears in stratification literature, that working-class people are increasingly adopting middle-class values and behaviors, this paper examines changes in the relationship between social class and sexual behavior over the last thirty years. Comparing data collected in 1938-63 with data collected in 1969-70, we find the following: For males, there are now similarities between the working and middle classes…
"Comments on "The Africaine Courts-Martial
No abstract available for this article
Male Homosexuals
Male Homosexuals
Gay Baths and the Social Organization of Impersonal Sex
The conditions described by males as ideal for impersonal sex include protection; ample, accessible opportunities; a known, shared, and organized reality; bounding of the experience; congeniality; and a comfortable physical setting. This paper examines gay baths in rela-tion to these conditions. It also develops—from the male participants' perspective—a general model of the successful territorial and inter-actional organization of impersonal sex.…
The Social Constituents of Sadomasochism
Traditional conceptions of sadomasochism are misleading. This is because they are not based on close examination of what the majority of SM participants actually do and how they interpret their own behaviors. Over a period of eight years, we interviewed a variety of SM participants and observed their behavior in many different settings. We found that sadomasochism was constituted by five social features: dominance and submission, role playing, co…
Gay Baths and the Social Organization of Impersonal Sex
The conditions described by males as ideal for impersonal sex include protection; ample, accessible opportunities; a known, shared, and organized reality; bounding of the experience; congeniality; and a comfortable physical setting. This paper examines gay baths in rela-tion to these conditions. It also develops—from the male participants' perspective—a general model of the successful territorial and inter-actional organization of impersonal sex.…
Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment
Black sexuality
Testing the theoretical statements of Alfred Kinsey and James Coleman regarding racial differences in sexual experience (Coleman, 1966; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948), data from three samples, covering the period 1938–70, are brought to bear on the following hypotheses: (a) Black men and women are more sexually permissive than white men and women, but such differences are more a function of social class than race (Kinsey); and (b) differences i…
Men Sexually Interested in Transwomen (MSTW)
This article extends research on transgenderism by providing a sociological study of men who are sexually interested in transwomen (MSTW; viz., genetic males who use estrogen to feminize their body but retain their penis). We conducted fieldwork in a bar catering to transwomen and the men who were sexually interested in them, and did on-the-spot interviews with the MSTW. We initially examined the nature of MSTW's sexual attraction to transwomen, …
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
Sexual Embourgeoisment? Social Class and Sexual Activity
Using the idea of embourgeoisment, as it appears in stratification literature, that working-class people are increasingly adopting middle-class values and behaviors, this paper examines changes in the relationship between social class and sexual behavior over the last thirty years. Comparing data collected in 1938-63 with data collected in 1969-70, we find the following: For males, there are now similarities between the working and middle classes…
Fecal Matters
This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence. Researching 172 university students, we show how aspects of the socio-cultural context as “embodied” in four groups of participants (heterosexual women and men and non-heterosexual women and men) mediate the operation of the “fecal habitus”—that part of culture that interprets and organizes fecal events (Inglis 2000). The study finds that…
Zoophilia in Men
Bare Bodies
This article examines the role of nude embodiment as it affects sexuality, intimacy, and pleasure when people seek to align their nude body with cultural values. This research, based on open-ended and closed-ended data from 184 young heterosexual adults attending a large Midwestern university, finds the experience of nude embodiment and its effects to be strongly gendered. For example, among both men and women, comfort with one’s nude body is ass…
Trans Men
This article examines the experiences of 25 persons who were assigned female status at birth but do not wish to live as women and take on a masculine or queer gender identity. We employ the concept of “gendered embodiment” and introduce the concept of “sexualized embodiment” to highlight what is involved in this process. We ask how experiencing a masculine gender identity is reflexively tied to a trans man's sexuality and the ways in which these …
Homosexual foot fetishism
Bisexuals at Midlife
In the framework of a constructionist approach, a life-course point of view, and traditional concepts borrowed from identity theory, the authors report on a study of fifty-six San Francisco bisexuals. The data show that by midlife, changing life commitments among the participants were associated with a decrease in sexual involvement, a move toward sexual activity with just one sex, a decrease in contact with the bisexual subculture, and a decreas…
Trans Women Doing Sex in San Francisco
Men Sex Workers and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men
"Comments on "The Africaine Courts-Martial
No abstract available for this article
The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and the Gay Guys
Being Discovered
Current conceptions of deviance have placed less emphasis on the role played by the deviant himself in being assigned a deviant label. To examine the role of the deviant, a sample of male homosexuals who had received less than honorable discharges from the military for homosexual conduct (LHD group) were compared with a sample who had received honorable discharges (HD). It was found that, compared to the HD group, the LHD group was more likely (a…
Disruption, Social Location and Interpretive Practices
The responses of the Jewish residents of a New Jersey community to religious allegations that arose in the course of a local election were investigated by means of a questionnaire mailed to all known Jewish families in the community. The data indicated that Jewish participation and identity were positively related to a response of increased ethnocentrism; cross-ties were negatively related to increased ethnocentrism and positively to response of …
Being Discovered
Current conceptions of deviance have placed less emphasis on the role played by the deviant himself in being assigned a deviant label. To examine the role of the deviant, a sample of male homosexuals who had received less than honorable discharges from the military for homosexual conduct (LHD group) were compared with a sample who had received honorable discharges (HD). It was found that, compared to the HD group, the LHD group was more likely (a…
The Military
Homosexuals and the Military
The Good Guys, The Bad Guys, and the Gay Guys
Male Homosexuals
Male Homosexuals
Gay Baths and the Social Organization of Impersonal Sex
The conditions described by males as ideal for impersonal sex include protection; ample, accessible opportunities; a known, shared, and organized reality; bounding of the experience; congeniality; and a comfortable physical setting. This paper examines gay baths in rela-tion to these conditions. It also develops—from the male participants' perspective—a general model of the successful territorial and inter-actional organization of impersonal sex.…
"Comments on "The Africaine Courts-Martial
No abstract available for this article
Sexual Embourgeoisment? Social Class and Sexual Activity
Using the idea of embourgeoisment, as it appears in stratification literature, that working-class people are increasingly adopting middle-class values and behaviors, this paper examines changes in the relationship between social class and sexual behavior over the last thirty years. Comparing data collected in 1938-63 with data collected in 1969-70, we find the following: For males, there are now similarities between the working and middle classes…
The Making of the Modern Homosexual
The Social Constituents of Sadomasochism
Traditional conceptions of sadomasochism are misleading. This is because they are not based on close examination of what the majority of SM participants actually do and how they interpret their own behaviors. Over a period of eight years, we interviewed a variety of SM participants and observed their behavior in many different settings. We found that sadomasochism was constituted by five social features: dominance and submission, role playing, co…
Black sexuality
Testing the theoretical statements of Alfred Kinsey and James Coleman regarding racial differences in sexual experience (Coleman, 1966; Kinsey, Pomeroy, & Martin, 1948), data from three samples, covering the period 1938–70, are brought to bear on the following hypotheses: (a) Black men and women are more sexually permissive than white men and women, but such differences are more a function of social class than race (Kinsey); and (b) differences i…
Telling the Facts of Life
This study examines a telephone switchboard that provides sex information to anonymous callers. Telephone volunteers undergo a training program in which they are taught a philosophical charter about sex that they are expected to follow in handling calls. Once working the telephone, volunteers creatively apply this charter to make sense of the calls they receive. Charter concerns, it is argued, serve to organize volunteers' telephone activities
Sex and Morality in the U.S
This book presents the major findings from a national survey of American sexual norms and experiences. The survey was conducted in 1970 under the auspices of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University and is based on interviews with more than 3000 adults. The authors incorporate the data and interpretations from the interviews in this volume. SEX AND MORALITY IN THE US describes the degree to which survey respondents judged prostitution…
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious--and potentially illuminating--variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS make greater awareness of all forms of sexual behaviour an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin W…
Homosexual foot fetishism
“If the shoe fits …”
This study of 262 respondents from an organization for homosexual and bisexual foot fetishists provides information from a broader sample than clinical cases and was guided by major ideas found in the literature on sexual fetishism. Some researchers see fetishism as the product of early learning experiences. Results of this study showed such experiences to occur around puberty and to be predominantly positive. Sources of learning were experiences…
Dual Attraction
For the past two generations, extensive research has been conducted on the determinants of homosexuality. But, until now, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps the most mysterious-and potentially illuminating-variation of human sexual expression, bisexuality. Today, as ignorance and fear of AIDS makes greater awareness of all forms of sexual behavior an urgent matter of private and public consequence, leading sex researchers Martin Wei…
Gendered Sex Work in the San Francisco Tenderloin
Men Sex Workers and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men
Bisexuals at Midlife
In the framework of a constructionist approach, a life-course point of view, and traditional concepts borrowed from identity theory, the authors report on a study of fifty-six San Francisco bisexuals. The data show that by midlife, changing life commitments among the participants were associated with a decrease in sexual involvement, a move toward sexual activity with just one sex, a decrease in contact with the bisexual subculture, and a decreas…
Zoophilia in Men
Fecal Matters
This article examines fecal matters—namely, the social concerns that can accompany defecation and flatulence. Researching 172 university students, we show how aspects of the socio-cultural context as “embodied” in four groups of participants (heterosexual women and men and non-heterosexual women and men) mediate the operation of the “fecal habitus”—that part of culture that interprets and organizes fecal events (Inglis 2000). The study finds that…
Men Sexually Interested in Transwomen (MSTW)
This article extends research on transgenderism by providing a sociological study of men who are sexually interested in transwomen (MSTW; viz., genetic males who use estrogen to feminize their body but retain their penis). We conducted fieldwork in a bar catering to transwomen and the men who were sexually interested in them, and did on-the-spot interviews with the MSTW. We initially examined the nature of MSTW's sexual attraction to transwomen, …
Psychology (26 works) · Sociology (22 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Human sexuality (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (6 works)