Gay Relationships

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Review: About the editor:
John P. De Cecco, Ph.D is a Professor of Psychology and Human Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for Research and Education in Sexuality (CERES) at San Francisco State University.
He has been Editor of the Journal of Homosexuality since 1977. He is also Senior Editor (Human Sexuality) for the Haworth Press, Inc., and the Harrington Park Press, Inc. His current
work consists of the analysis of the presuppositions in biomedical and sociocultural conceptions of homosexuality, explication of the essentialist-constructionist debate in homosexual research and the use of current knowledge of homosexuality to critique heterosexual institutions. Please
note, Haworth Press publishes the Journal of Homosexuality; Harrington Press is a subsidiary of The Haworth Press.
About the contributors:
The majority of the contributors are educators and researchers in the field of human sexuality.
The body of the research was done in the United States mostily in California. One study is from Canada; one is from Australia. The studies were pubished originally between 1976 and 1986.
About the book:
The editor has compiled a series of articles that appeared in the Journal of Homosexuality. The articles are grouped under five major headings: Introduction, Where to look for lovers, Whom to Choose as a Lover, How to maintain a Gay Relationship, How to Solve Problems in Gay Relationships. Of the nineteen articles, eleven studied gay male couples, 7 compared gay and
lesbian relationships and one comparied homosexual behavior to heterosexual behavior.