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Tearoom trade by laud humphreys offers a detailed examination of the phenomenon of men who have sex with other men in public lavatories. Entering and exiting a tearoom quickly and efficiently resulted in less explaining that a man needed to provide to his family in order to justify his absences. It was also accorded an unusual amount of praise for a first book on a marginal, intentionally selfeffacing population by a previously unknown sociologist. In 1970, laud humphreys published the groundbreaking dissertation he wrote as a doctoral candidate at washington university called tearoom trade. In 1970 laud humphreys, then a washington university phd student, wrote his infamous thesis tearoom trade which was a study of homosexual behaviour between men in public toilets in a u.
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