In my eighty plus years I have worn many hats, - one with scrambled eggs on the brim - having been, among other diversions, an electrical contractor, airline pilot, amateur archeologist, real estate broker, and intermittent professional student. I was drawn into research and writing in the behavioral sciences when I was approached in 1999 by an editor of the McGraw Hill textbook Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality for an essay on the controversy that was then swirling around the 1998 Rind-Bauserman-Tromovitch publication of "A meta-analytic examination of assumed properties of child sexual abuse using college samples" in Psychological Bulletin, 124, 22-53. The essay was accepted by this editor, but the McGraw Hill management refused to publish it until some five years later, as described in The Odyssey of an Essay.Since then, I have been involved in primarily Internet based research into the psychosexual development of boys, a field that unfortunately for some time had been dominated by "victimology" and "child sexual abuse" paradigms. I have been published in various journals, in the above mentioned textbook, and am the author of paperback books on these issues. To provide a better foundation for my endeavors, in 2005 I finally completed an earned undergraduate degree in Psychology from a fully accredited state college.
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