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Director, Center for Sex Research, California State University, Northridgee~mail: james.elias@csun.edu or sex.research@csun.edu
WWW: http://www.csun.edu/~sr2022 (Center for Sex Research Web Page)
Special Interest Areas: Jim maintains a balance in teaching, research and clinical work in the sexual area with a focus on sexual disorders, paraphilias, offenders, homosexuality and the transgendered community. Human Sexuality Courses:
Soc. 452, Sociology of Homosexuality
Soc. 456, Proseminar on Sexual Disorders and Sexual Therapy
Background: Jim did his undergraduate work in Psychology at Southern Illinois University and his Masters in Sociology also at SIU. He went to Indiana University for his doctoral studies and a position with the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He completed his academic work at Indiana while doing research with Paul Gebhard and William Simon. He completed his clinical work with Wardell Pomeroy at the Institute for Advanced Studies. He is licensed as a Marriage, Family and Child Therapist.
Selected Bibliography:
"Sexuality and Sexual Learning in Childhood," with Paul Gebhard in The Marriage Counseling Quarterly, Vol. 4, No.4, Summer, 1969; Human Sexual Development-Perspectives in Sex Education by D.L. Taylor, Davis and Co., 1970; The Psychology of the Elementary School Child. ed. A. Binter, Rand McNally, 1972 and Early Childhood Education, ed. R. Anderson and H. Shane, Harvard Press, 1973."Exposure to Erotic Stimuli in Adolescence" in The Technical Reports of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Vol. 9, Wash. D.C., U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1970.
"Adolescent Sexual Behavior and Venereal Diseases" in Venereal Diseases ed. Leslie Nicholas, M.D., Charles Thomas Co., Springfield, Illinois, 1972.
"Dimensions of Masculinity and Female Reactions to Male Nudity" with Veronica Elias in Love and Attraction Cook and Wilson, eds., Pergamon Press, N.Y., 1979.
"Incidence and Predictors of Condom Use in an Urban Heterosexual College Student Population," P. Diefenbach, M.D., Bing Hsu, M.D., K. Kanapke, M.D. and A. Kling, M.D. in Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 1995.
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