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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:30:28 PST
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- From: Stephanie Fishkin <fishkin@SCF.USC.EDU>
- Subject: RE: handwashing ethics
- In-Reply-To: <9301211808.AA23200@aludra.usc.edu>; from "Jon Abramowitz" at Jan
- 21, 93 11:40 am
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- >
- > I remember reading about and laughing about that men's bathroom study also
- > as an undergraduate. It was my social behavior experimental class. I
- > think, however, the topic it was used to illustrare was ETHICS!!!!!!
- >
- > Anyone know where (and when, for that matter) that was done?
- >
- > Jon A.
- >
-
- I don't know about the "pee study", however in one of my anthropology
- classes (and later in a grad psych seminar) the Humphrey's study of
- Gay Men was brought up in Ethical debates (I think the title of whatever
- article he wrote was called something like The Tea-room Trade). This guy
- served as a lookout for men having sex in a public park bathroom. As he
- did this, he somehow wrote downt their licence plate numbers, then went
- to the DMV and got their names and addresses. Then, he went to their house
- and said he was part of some Census-like study and got all sorts of info
- about them and their lives. The result was that gay men came from all
- sorts of backgrounds (married, single, rich, poor, profesional, unemployed,
- and so forth), which was a revelation for a lot of people.
- Has anyone else read about this? Do you think the ends justified
- the means in this case? He never gave out the names of the people (I think
- he destroyed the list).
- Have fun!
- SF
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- Stephanie Fishkin, Univeristy of Southern California
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