Vern Bullough, Sex Researcher: 1928 - 2006

If you studied human sexuality in North America in the past fifty years there are a few names you became immediately familiar with. Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, probably Richard von Krafft-Ebing, and certainly Vern Bullough. Even if you never managed to read (or, depending on your tastes, studiously avoided reading) any of Bullough's voluminous writings, you'd see his name everywhere, and it gave you a sense of the living history of sexology.

It's a bit sad then that there has been so little public notice of Bullough's passing last week at the age of 77.

Bullough, who many colleagues and students on line are comparing to Kinsey, was without a doubt one of the great sex historians, as well as a key participant in American sexology, civil rights, and the international sexological community.

The LA Times ran a piece on Bullough's life, and you can read a complete obituary, and learn more about Bullough's life and the over fifty books he authored at his website.