About the Author

Dave Riegel has been an electrical contractor, airline captain, amateur archaeologist, real estate broker, and professional student. Now in his 70s, for the past several years he has been using the World Wide Web to investigate the effects on the psychosexual development of boys of relationships with older males which include a sexual component. He has developed and conducted several Internet based surveys which have proved to be valuable sources of empirical data in this sensitive and controversial area of inquiry. His writings include two previous books, Understanding Loved Boys and Boylovers (2000), and Beyond Hysteria: Boy Erotica on the Internet (2004), essays in the scientific journals Archives of Sexual Behavior (August 2004) and Sexuality and Culture (Winter 2005), an article in press for Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality, and an essay for the ninth edition (2005) of the McGraw-Hill/Dushkin text-book Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Human Sexuality.