'm a bastard. Growing up, no one ever told me this. I had to figure the awful truth out all by myself. More precisely, I'm an intellectual bastard. My mother discipline and my father discipline have a lot in common, but they don't seem to get along very well. I don't think their fights and petty jealousies are very important, because.... My most recent publication, as briefly excerpted in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Welcome to Dr. Jim Weinrich's AIDS and Sexology page

Dr. Weinrich is the Principal Investigator of the Sexology Project at the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC). The HNRC is administered through the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego, where Dr. Weinrich is Assistant Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry. Photo by Tyll van Geel.

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Topics Covered on This Page

• Current preoccupations
  • Recent appearances
  • My books (Includes link to my Bookstore.)
  • Review of an anti-gay book
  • Selected interviews
  • Current position, funding, and goals
• Links to other sexological resources
• E-mail privacy codes (PGP)
• How to contact me

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Current Preoccupations

Recent appearances

• April 7, 1997 -- "The Chemistry of Love" -- an episode of the PBS talk show series Straight Talk with Derek McGinty, aired at 10 PM in most U.S. cities.

Republication of my book

Rights for my popular book Sexual Landscapes (Scribners, 1987) have reverted to me. I plan to publish chapter summaries and other information about the book at this web site. Better yet, I will soon decide whether to publish it here completely electronically, to republish it in a paperback edition, or both.

Although Sexual Landscapes is not currently available, several others are in which I wrote one or more chapters. Click over to my new Bookstore page to see the list.

Text of book review available

The full text of my review of anti-gay psychologist Joseph Nicolosi's book (which appeared in the Journal of Sex Research) is now available at this site. Follow this link to find out what's wrong with "Reparative therapy" for male homosexuality.

Selected interviews

I have been interviewed twice by The Scientist in articles examining science, sex research, and homosexuality:

• March 1992: Gay And Lesbian Scientists Seek Workplace Equality
• March 1994: The Science Of Sex: What Is It And Who's Doing It?

These articles are well-written; check them out!

Current position, funding, and goals

My funding comes from the Universitywide AIDS Research Program of the University of California (see UARP link below). I am currently working with the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center (HNRC), a large HIV research center funded to investigate what happens when the AIDS virus gets into the central nervous system.

In my current research, I'm trying to understand:

• the deeper reasons why people have the sexual fantasies they have (some now termed "safe" and others "unsafe"), and
• why some men with unsafe fantasies have no problem doing them in a safe way, whereas others feel compelled to do them unsafely.

Links to Other Sexological Resources

These have been moved to a separate page.

PGP Info

For personal privacy in an over-wiretapped world, I have generated a Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) public key for secure e-mail communications.

This key is available through the PGP keyserver by searching for my e-mail address, jweinrich@ucsd.edu. Once you download the key, you'll want to verify its key signature:

09 9C CA 36 01 B2 4E 86  0A 5B 0C 8F 04 30 12 2C

The exceptionally paranoid can verify this signature by phoning me at the number below.

How to contact me

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