Health Psychology Conference, 2008-09-09

The Alain Giami collection offers researchers documentation of both the extensive career and the personal life of a sexologist employed by a major medical research institution. His professional papers detail his research into the medicalization of sexual behavior, the attitudes of medical doctors and nurses around sexuality, effective AIDS prevention, and the sexuality of disabled people from the 1980s onward, as well as providing extremely scarce erotic magazines from Brazil and sub-Saharan Africa that he collected as part of his research. Giami’s personal papers shed light on the obstacles he faced in securing respect for research about sexuality and document parts of his private life and love relationships.