Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS, or "quad-S") is, according its website, a professional membership organization, "dedicated to advancing knowledge of sexuality and communicating scientifically based sexuality research and scholarship to professionals, policy makers, and the general public."[1] It reports to have more than 700 members, including anthropologists, biologists, educators, historians, nurses, physicians, psychologists, sociologists, theologians, therapists, and others.[2] It produces a quarterly, online newsletter, Sexual Science.[3] and the Journal of Sex Research, a scholarly journal published quarterly.[4]

History

SSSS was established by sex researchers including Albert Ellis, Harry Benjamin,[5] and Ira Reiss.[6] It formed in 1957 as the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.[7]

A prominent sex researcher, James Cantor, resigned in protest from SSSS following a heated exchange on the group’s listserv about gender dysphoria.[8] Cantor linked to an essay, “When is a TERF not a TERF,”[9] saying extremists were being unfair to those questioning parts of transgender activist claims.[8] Cantor was suspended from the listserv,[10] to which Cantor responded "It is unfortunate to have lost SSSS as a genuinely scientific organization, but there is little point in the collective pretense that it hadn’t already happened a while ago."[11]

References
  1. http://sexscience.org
  2. http://sexscience.org/governance/about-ssss/
  3. http://sexscience.org/resources/newsletter/
  4. http://sexscience.org/journal-of-sex-research/
  5. https://kinseyinstitute.org/collections/archival/sex-educators-and-sex-organizations-collections.php#ssss
  6. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171061/summary
  7. Bullough, Vern L. (1989). The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex: A brief history. Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.https://www.amazon.com/Society-Scientific-Study-Sex-history/dp/0962437301
  8. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/top-canadian-sex-researcher-quits-scientific-group-after-being-blasted-for-views-on-transgender-issues/wcm/5a7ce3c4-4047-4c4b-babb-4c88de8dd6d9/
  9. http://www.sexologytoday.org/2020/07/when-is-terf-not-terf.html
  10. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/08/26/canada-sex-society-scientific-study-sexuality-anti-trans-essay-jk-rowling-james-cantor/
  11. http://www.sexologytoday.org/2020/08/open-letter-of-resignation-from-society.html


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