Tearoom Trade Impersonal Sex in Public Places

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 recognied as an important, imaginative, and useful contribution to our understanding of deviant sexual activity. Describing impersonal, anonymous sexual encounters in public restroomstearooms in the argotthe book explores the behavior of men whose closet homosexuality is kept from their families and neighbors.Humphreys, Laud is the author of 'Tearoom Trade Impersonal Sex in Public Places', published 1975 under ISBN 9780202302836 and ISBN 0202302830.