Ira Reiss - Biography

Ira L. Reiss (born 1925 in New York City) has been a prominent sexuality researcher since the mid-1950s, and retired from his position as professor of sociology at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis in 1997. Reiss grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania during the Great Depression. In 1964, Reiss developed the most widely used scale of premarital sexual standards, the Reiss Premarital Sexual Permissiveness Scale. After his retirement he published An insider's view of sexual science since Kinsey in 2006.

The Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality grants The Ira and Harriet Reiss Theory Award annually to the author(s) of the best social science article, chapter, or book published in the previous year in which theoretical explanations of human sexual attitudes and behaviors are developed. This award, which is dedicated to both Ira Reiss and his wife Harriet is meant to highlight and support theoretical advances in social science theories concerning human sexuality. Reiss has also co-authored the 1997 book Solving America's Sexual Crisis with his wife

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