Actually, I've been to a sexology conference where a well-known scholar from Indiana University, Prof. Colin Johnson (an important and influential figure in sexual research, and the author of a seminal methodological article for sexologists) presented initial insights from a study of zoophiles and gave a talk which was less than a categorical ban of the activity. I now find this on the web:

http://members.tripod.com/~judymyers/indiana.html

My instinct is to be disgusted and horrified, so I find it difficult to read this with equanimity, but perhaps others here think differently.

what's the seminal methodological article for sexologists?

The original paper was:

Weinberg, M.S., & Williams, C.J. (1972). Fieldwork among deviants: Social relations with subjects and others. In J. Douglas, (Ed.), Research on Deviance, (pp. 163-186). New York: Random House.

Williams and Weinberg presented an updated version of this paper as a plenary speech at the 2005 conference, under the title "Researching Unstudied and Understudied Communities: Social Relations with Participants".

shukran

And on the same vein, do you have any idea how funny it is to teach an undergraduate class about "penal policies toward sex offenders"?

clearly, the penis mightier than the sword

winter in the continent said the dictator dick the third

Colin Williams, sorry.