Professor of Sociology, University of Houston, Texas

e-mail: Wsimon@UH.EDU

Special Interest Areas: Bill Simon enjoys the abstractions of theory and has provided one of the more utilized theories of sexual scripting. Other areas of interest are the media and sexuality, as well as various adaptations of sexuality and their meanings. Post-modern sexuality, his latest book, is a compilation of essays over the last ten years. The cover of the book is a painting of Simon by his wife, Lynn Randolph, a nationally recognized painter.

Background: Bill is a product of the University of Chicago where he obtained his training and his Ph.D. Through the National Opinion Research Center, he developed expertise in survey research and through the academic side-theory. His work in the area of human sexuality began when he moved from Southern Illinois University to the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University as a Senior Research Sociologist. He left Indiana to head the Institute for Juvenile Research for the State of Illinois and then returned to the academic world at the University of Houston, Texas.

Bill Simon has received a lifetime award for his contributions to the field of human sexuality from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality.

Selected Bibliography:

Sexual Deviance. eds. J. H. Gagnon and W. Simon. New York, Harper and Row, 1967.

Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality, eds. J.H. Gagnon and William Simon. Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co. 1973.

"The social, the erotic, and sensual: the complexities of sexual scripts", in J.K. Cole and R. Diensbrier (eds.) The Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, Vol. 23, Lincoln: Univ. Of Nebraska Press, 1973.

"On psychosexual development", with J.H. Gagnon in D.A. Goslin (ed.) Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research, New York, Rand McNally, 1969.

"Sexual Scripts: permanence and change", Archives of Sexual Behavior, 15(2), 1986.Postmodern Sexualities, London and New York: Routledge Press, 1996.

Postmodern Sexualities, London and New York: Routledge Press, 1996.

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