Gindorf, Rolf

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GINDORF, Rolf

GINDORF, Rolf. German, b. 1939. Genres: Gay and lesbian issues, Psychology, Sex, Sociology. Career: Heinrich Schulte Industrieausruestungen Co., Duesseldorf, Germany, president and head of export sales, 1959-71; Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung (German Society for Social Scientific Sex Research), Duesseldorf, founder, 1971, president, 1971-79, vice-president, 1979-2004, honorary president, 2004-, research and clinical sexologist and director of Institut fuer Lebens- und Sexualberatung (Sexual Therapy and Counseling Institute), 1978-. Duesseldorfer Arbeitskreis Homosexualitaet und Gesellschaft, founder, 1971. Shanghai Sex Research Center, scientific adviser. Also worked as a translator. Publications: IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION: (with E.J. Haeberle) Sexology Today, 1993; (ed. with Haeberle, and contrib) Bisexualitaeten, 1994, trans. as Bisexualities, 1998. Contributor to professional journals and other periodicals. CO-EDITOR, IN GERMAN: Beitraege zur Sozialwissenschaftli-chen Sexualforschung series, 1979; Schriftenreihe Sozialwissenschaftliche Sexualforschung series, 1986; (with J.-Ch. Aigner, and contrib.) Von der Last der Lust, 1986; (with Haeberle, and contrib.) Sexualitaet als Sozialer Tatbestand, 1986; (with Haeberle, and contrib.) Sexualitaeten in unserer Gesellschaft, 1989; (with Haeberle, and contrib.) Sexualwissenschaft und Sexual-politik, 1992; (with Haeberle) Sexualwissenschaft Heute, 1992. Address: c/o Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Sozialwissenschaftliche, Sexualforschung, Gerresheimer Strasse 20, D-40211 Duesseldorf, Germany. Online address: [email protected]