Reiss (1961) - Homosexuality

Cards (3)

  • Reiss completes their studies on homosexuality & identity in 1961
  • Reiss (1961) studied young male prostitutes, who regarded themselves as heterosexual, despite having sex with men for money & actively despised the men as a way of balancing their behaviour
  • Reiss (1961) shows how homosexuality was still seen as something bad in the 1960's, and how the perspectives of homosexuality have stayed traditional