From the editor's desk: Receiving the torch in the era of sexology's renaissance

Archives of Sexual Behavior,  February, 2002  by Kenneth J. Zucker

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When Volume 1 of the Archives hit the streets in 1971, there were only two other English language journals that published empirical and theoretical material under the broad rubric of sex, gender, and sexuality: Hormones and Behavior, now the official journal of the Society for Behavioral Neuroendocrinology, and the Journal of Sex Research, published by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality. The so-called second wave era of feminism was still in its infancy and the explosion of feminist-tinted journals, such as Signs, was still a few years away. The modern gay liberation movement ...