Bruce Rind
Bruce Rind is an American psychology researcher. He has served as a professor of psychology at Temple University and published research on topics including child sexual behaviors and abuse, as well as evolutionary theories regarding homosexuality and sexual attraction to minors.
Contribution to Haworth's Press<nowiki/>' 2005 special issue
In 2005, far-right website WorldNetDaily published a piece denouncing an article titled Pederasty: an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, Cross-Cultural, Cross-species, and evolutionary Perspectives, which was authored by Rind and published in a special issue of then Haworth Press's Journal of Homosexuality.
The removal of Rind's article by the publisher, which overrode a previous decision made by the journal's editorial board, caused board member Barbara Fister to resign. In a 2012 article, she stated that Haworth's Press had done "something that I thought was so wrong that I felt I could not in conscience be associated with them". A 2006 academic article published on criticized Haworth Press' decision, stating that "rather than allowing the academic community to respond to and to debate , an attempt was made to prevent the material and his ideas from entering the public domain from the start."
Research on evolution and sexuality
In a paper written in 2015 that examined the origins of pederasty in human evolutionary history, Rind has argued that erotic relationships between boys and men have strengthened the cohesion in the social groups in which they have occurred. Researcher David Greenberg wrote that Rind appeared, on that paper, to argue that pederasty began as an facultative evolutionary trait (i.e. a trait that is significantly dependent on the environment and may not be widely manifested across significantly different circumstances), as opposed to an obligatory one.
Rind has criticized Michael Seto's view that hebephilia is an evolutionarily maladaptive chronophilia, describing it instead in a 2016 paper as an advantageous exaptation which had been previously observed among old world primates and pre-industrial societies. In 2017, Seto wrote that Rind's arguments did not explain why only a minority of men are hebephilic. He also stated that, if given the choice, most men would freely choose to partner with a young sexually mature woman rather than a pubescent girl. In his article, Seto wrote: "I wonder if Rind would concede that persons with exclusive or preferential hebephilia might demonstrate maladaptation".
In a 2015 paper, Rind stated that the current scientific theories on the functions of homosexuality are a work in progress and outlined some recommendations that may improve the methodology in the area. He responded to the criticism that such theories amounted to post-hoc rationalizations, stating that corroborating evidence from different sources and hypothesis generation and testing can aid in the development of valid scientific theories in the field.
In the first study, 18%, 26% and 29% of clients tipped during rainy, partly sunny and sunny days respectively. In the second study, clients were told the weather at random in order to account for external factors that may have influenced their decisions.
Contribution to Haworth's Press<nowiki/>' 2005 special issue
In 2005, far-right website WorldNetDaily published a piece denouncing an article titled Pederasty: an integration of empirical, historical, sociological, Cross-Cultural, Cross-species, and evolutionary Perspectives, which was authored by Rind and published in a special issue of then Haworth Press's Journal of Homosexuality.
The removal of Rind's article by the publisher, which overrode a previous decision made by the journal's editorial board, caused board member Barbara Fister to resign. In a 2012 article, she stated that Haworth's Press had done "something that I thought was so wrong that I felt I could not in conscience be associated with them". A 2006 academic article published on criticized Haworth Press' decision, stating that "rather than allowing the academic community to respond to and to debate , an attempt was made to prevent the material and his ideas from entering the public domain from the start."
Research on evolution and sexuality
In a paper written in 2015 that examined the origins of pederasty in human evolutionary history, Rind has argued that erotic relationships between boys and men have strengthened the cohesion in the social groups in which they have occurred. Researcher David Greenberg wrote that Rind appeared, on that paper, to argue that pederasty began as an facultative evolutionary trait (i.e. a trait that is significantly dependent on the environment and may not be widely manifested across significantly different circumstances), as opposed to an obligatory one.
Rind has criticized Michael Seto's view that hebephilia is an evolutionarily maladaptive chronophilia, describing it instead in a 2016 paper as an advantageous exaptation which had been previously observed among old world primates and pre-industrial societies. In 2017, Seto wrote that Rind's arguments did not explain why only a minority of men are hebephilic. He also stated that, if given the choice, most men would freely choose to partner with a young sexually mature woman rather than a pubescent girl. In his article, Seto wrote: "I wonder if Rind would concede that persons with exclusive or preferential hebephilia might demonstrate maladaptation".
In a 2015 paper, Rind stated that the current scientific theories on the functions of homosexuality are a work in progress and outlined some recommendations that may improve the methodology in the area. He responded to the criticism that such theories amounted to post-hoc rationalizations, stating that corroborating evidence from different sources and hypothesis generation and testing can aid in the development of valid scientific theories in the field.
In the first study, 18%, 26% and 29% of clients tipped during rainy, partly sunny and sunny days respectively. In the second study, clients were told the weather at random in order to account for external factors that may have influenced their decisions.
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