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Tearoom Trade

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Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places is a 1970 non-fiction book by American sociologist Laud Humphreys, based on his 1968 Ph.D. dissertation "Tearoom Trade: A Study of Homosexual Encounters in Public Places." The study is an analysis of men who participate in anonymous sex with other men in public lavatories, a practice known as "tea-rooming" or "cottaging". Humphreys asserted that the men participating in such activity came from diverse social backgrounds, had differing personal motives for seeking sex in such venues, and variously self-perceived as "straight," "bisexual," or "gay."

Tearoom Trade - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1970 book by Laud Humphreys Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places Author Laud Humphreys Language English Subject Homosexuality Publisher Duckworth Publication date 1970 Publication place United Kingdom Media type Print Pages 180 ISBN 0-7156-0551-8 Tearoom Trade: Impersonal Sex in Public Places is a 1970 non-fiction book by American sociologist Laud Humphreys , based on his 1968 Ph.D. dissertation "Tearoom Trade: A Study of Homosexual Encounters in Public Places". The study is an analysis of men who partici

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