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D J West (Donald West) is a British psychiatrist and criminologist, noted for his book Homosexuality, published in 1955.
A a younger socially withdrawn gay man, he found himself attracted to studies of the psychological problems of sexual and social outcasts – his research among social deviants includes ground-breaking works such as The Habitual Prisoner (1963) and The Young Offender (1967). In 1961 he initiated a fifty year follow-up of the lives of a sample of London boys, the early stages of which were published in The Delinquent Way of Life (1977). Further research in sex studies included a survey of London rent boys, Male Prostitution (1992).[1]
Donald West's best known work, Homosexuality, written well before the decrimilarisation of homosexuality, and even before the publication of the Wolfenden Report was a slassic of its time, and argued for tolerance of homosexuals, without of course revealing that its author was himself gay.
References
- ↑ Polari Magazine, "Gay Life, Straight Work with D J West": http://www.polarimagazine.com/gaystheword/gay-life-straight-work-d-j-west
