From the collection of sociologist Ira L. Reiss, with his ink stamp on front paste-down. Dr. Reiss was a pioneering researcher and educator whose work, primarily at the University of Minnesota and as a charter member and director of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex, aimed to broaden the theoretical and scientific framework used in the study of human sexuality, the family and gender roles. In the mid-1950s, Reiss began the sociological studies that culminated in his first book, Premarital Sexual Standards in America (1960), which "predicted a sexual revolution that would start by the end of the 1960s". Shortly before he published this work, in 1956, Reiss began exchanging letters with Albert Ellis, choosing Ellis because "he was one of the most prolific and interesting authors. critically analyzing American sexual customs." The two men's professional and personal connections would continue as both played key roles in the multi-disciplinary sexology that took shape after the g