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The society for the scientific study of sexuality: Hugo G. Beigel Award.


The Beigel Award was initiated by Clive M. Davis, the second editor of The Journal of Sex Research (JSR JSR Java Specification Request
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), and approved by the Board of Directors of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, formed in 1957, claims to be "the oldest organization of professionals interested in the study of sexuality in the United States." It claims to have some 900 members and has a quarterly newsletter, Sexual Science.  (SSSS SSSS Staphylococcus scalded skin syndrome, see there ). The award is named in memory of Dr. Hugo Beigel, a founding member of SSSS and the first editor of JSR, a position he held for 13 years. This honor promotes and rewards research excellence in sexual science and is granted annually to the author(s) of an outstanding report published in JSR. The winner(s), selected by the Editor and Associate Editors, receive(s) a cash grant of $500, a Certificate of Research Excellence from SSSS, and a registration fee waiver for the fall annual meeting of SSSS, where the award is presented.

The winners of the Beigel Award for 2002 are Erick Janssen, Harrie Vorst, Peter Finn, and John Bancroft Dr John H.J. Bancroft was Director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University from 1995 to 2004. He is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine.

Bancroft received his B.A. in 1960 and his M.D.
 for their article "The Sexual Inhibition A sexual inhibition denotes a conservative attitude to or a reservation relating to specific sexual practices.

One might be defined as having high sexual inhibitions in the events of fearing (see erotophobia) or being repelled by any sexual practice or discourse.
 (SIS) and Sexual Excitation (SES) Scales: I. Measuring Sexual Inhibition and Excitation Proneness in Men," published in the May issue (No. 2).
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Publication:The Journal of Sex Research
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Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Nov 1, 2003
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