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Hello.

My first publication in an established sociology journal had the type of portentous

title that no doubt I hoped would help secure my position as a tenured lecture.

It was called The Significance and Interpretation of Motivational Accounts provided by Sex Offenders.

I'm not going to wear you with the content, but I do want to recall the reaction of a leading professor to my research topic.

Don't become too too associated with sex, he advised it's not exactly a respectable specialism. Of course he may have been referring

to the yards and yards of so-called sex research which continue to fill the pages of

popular magazines research which usually boils down to a simple normative question

are you getting your fair share but I suspect that his concern was with more

academic investigations with the type of research into sexual behavior that lies at the core

of the Welcome Collections new exhibition which under the title The Institute of

Sexology promises to lay bare the big questions of human sexuality. But when I visited the Welcome Collection

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