Sexologists do it on the Web
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I met Jim when he was a dorm tutor (someone older who lives on a floor of undergaduates to counsel them) at Harvard c. 1978. He invited me to one of his parties -- which turned out to be a gimmick party. The gimmick: when you arrived, he took you into his bedroom, took a Polaroid of you naked, then you dressed and wore the picture around your neck for the rest of the party. It was amusing to watch people's eyes as they tried to check out the picture without getting caught.
I dated Jim a few times. He was witty and engaging. However, he did commit the fatal error of suggesting I was morally obligated to sleep with him because he was a Hepatitis B carrier and I was one of the few people who'd been vaccinated at that time. I found this less than romantic or arousing....
Jim went off to Johns Hopkins to work under Dr. John Money in sexology studies. Using such tools as a penile plethysmograph (which measures the hardness of a subject's dick as he is exposed to various stimuli), he was involved in some serious sex studies.
He hit it big in 1987 when his first book was selected by the Psychology Today book club as an alternate selection: Sexual Landscapes: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love. It's a great book and not that dated considering, but it's out of print now.
Jim moved to San Diego and went through a series of boyfriends, did a lot of nude photography, published a line of postcards, and survived doing sex research, generally AIDS-related, at UCSD. Two years ago his funding evaporated, and now he's supporting himself with his website Jim's Penis Central. Somewhere between camp and puerile, worth a few minutes. And of course the continuity of his interest in the subject is heartening.
He travels to Pride parades and nude events around the world to photograph and demonstrate: see this picture from Toronto's pride parade:
Jim took up square dancing a few years ago and usually makes it to Convention, where his interest is focused on the Moonshine Tip (naked square dancing, for those of you outside the cult.)
I met Jim when he was a dorm tutor (someone older who lives on a floor of undergaduates to counsel them) at Harvard c. 1978. He invited me to one of his parties -- which turned out to be a gimmick party. The gimmick: when you arrived, he took you into his bedroom, took a Polaroid of you naked, then you dressed and wore the picture around your neck for the rest of the party. It was amusing to watch people's eyes as they tried to check out the picture without getting caught.
I dated Jim a few times. He was witty and engaging. However, he did commit the fatal error of suggesting I was morally obligated to sleep with him because he was a Hepatitis B carrier and I was one of the few people who'd been vaccinated at that time. I found this less than romantic or arousing....
Jim went off to Johns Hopkins to work under Dr. John Money in sexology studies. Using such tools as a penile plethysmograph (which measures the hardness of a subject's dick as he is exposed to various stimuli), he was involved in some serious sex studies.
He hit it big in 1987 when his first book was selected by the Psychology Today book club as an alternate selection: Sexual Landscapes: Why We Are What We Are, Why We Love Whom We Love. It's a great book and not that dated considering, but it's out of print now.
Jim moved to San Diego and went through a series of boyfriends, did a lot of nude photography, published a line of postcards, and survived doing sex research, generally AIDS-related, at UCSD. Two years ago his funding evaporated, and now he's supporting himself with his website Jim's Penis Central. Somewhere between camp and puerile, worth a few minutes. And of course the continuity of his interest in the subject is heartening.
He travels to Pride parades and nude events around the world to photograph and demonstrate: see this picture from Toronto's pride parade:
Jim took up square dancing a few years ago and usually makes it to Convention, where his interest is focused on the Moonshine Tip (naked square dancing, for those of you outside the cult.)
