Archives of Sexual Behavior

The journal was established in 1971 by Richard Green, who served as its editor-in-chief until 2001.{{Citation |title=Editorial Board |work=Archives of Sexual Behavior |year=2008 |url=https://www.springer.com/public+health/journal/10508?detailsPage=editorialBoard |access-date=2013-06-03}} He was succeeded by Kenneth J. Zucker. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media{{Citation |title=Home page |work=Archives of Sexual Behavior |year=2008 |url=https://www.springer.com/public+health/journal/10508 |access-date=2013-06-03}} and has become a leading journal in its field.{{cite news |first=Daniel |last=Bergner |title=What Do Women Want? |date=2009-01-22 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/magazine/25desire-t.html |work=New York Times Magazine |pages=MM26 |access-date=2013-06-03}}{{When|date=September 2023}}

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Biological Abstracts, Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences, EMBASE, Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Health and Safety Science Abstracts, Index Medicus/MEDLINE, Psychological Abstracts, PsycINFO, Referativny Zhurnal, Risk Abstracts, Sage Family Studies Abstracts, Scopus, Sexual and Relations Therapy, Social Sciences Citation Index, Social Science Index, Sociological Abstracts, Studies on Women & Gender Abstracts, and Violence and Abuse Abstracts. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal's 2023 impact factor is 2.9.{{cite book |year=2024 |chapter=Archives of Sexual Behavior|title=2023 Journal Citation Reports |publisher=Clarivate |edition=Science |via=Web of Science |title-link=Journal Citation Reports}}

{{Main|Robert Spitzer (psychiatrist)#On homosexuality}}

In 2003, a paper by Robert Spitzer was published outside "the usual peer-review process".{{Cite news |last=Carey |first=Benedict |date=2012-05-18 |title=Psychiatry Giant Sorry for Backing Gay 'Cure' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230726211131/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/health/dr-robert-l-spitzer-noted-psychiatrist-apologizes-for-study-on-gay-cure.html |archive-date=July 26, 2023 |access-date=2024-08-19 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite news |date=May 21, 2012 |title=Spitzer's Apology Changes 'Ex-Gay' Debate |url=https://www.npr.org/2012/05/21/153213796/spitzers-apology-changes-ex-gay-debate |work=Talk of the Nation |publisher=NPR}} This was based on 200 self-selected phone interviews,{{Cite journal |last=Moran |first=Mark |date=2012-06-15 |title=Spitzer Issues Apology for Study Supporting Reparative Therapy |url=https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/pn.47.12.psychnews_47_12_1-b |journal=Psychiatric News |language=en |volume=47 |issue=12 |pages=1b–23 |doi=10.1176/pn.47.12.psychnews_47_12_1-b |issn=0033-2704}} including some with members of the ex-gay movement who self-reported that conversion therapy ({{Aka}} "reparative therapy") changed their sexual orientation.{{Cite news |last=Arana |first=Gabriel |date=April 11, 2012 |title=My So-Called Ex-Gay Life |url=https://prospect.org/civil-rights/so-called-ex-gay-life/ |work=The American Prospect}} The paper concluded: "There is evidence that change in sexual orientation following some form of reparative therapy does occur in some gay men and lesbians."{{Cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Tom |date=April 9, 2015 |title=The Dubious Ethics and Efficacy of Conversion Therapy |url=https://psmag.com/social-justice/the-dubious-ethics-and-efficacy-of-conversion-therapy/ |work=Pacific Standard}} Before publication, the paper was presented at a psychiatry conference in 2001, after which it "generated enormous public attention and controversy". The journal published the paper alongside critical commentaries, including one saying conversion therapy violates ethics as defined by the Nuremberg Code. Spitzer's paper became cited by political activists opposed to homosexuality, and the ex-gay movement. Spitzer later agreed with critics of his paper's methodology, calling them "largely correct". In 2012, he asked the journal's editor (Kenneth Zucker) to retract it.{{Cite news |last=Marcus |first=Adam |date=April 12, 2012 |title=Controversial homosexuality "reparative therapy" paper staying put despite author's regrets |url=https://retractionwatch.com/2012/04/12/controverial-homosexuality-reparative-therapy-paper-staying-put-despite-authors-regrets/ |work=Retraction Watch}} Zucker declined to retract the paper. A letter to the editor by Spitzer later appeared in the journal on the matter.{{Cite journal |last=Spitzer |first=Robert L. |date=2012-08-01 |title=Spitzer Reassesses His 2003 Study of Reparative Therapy of Homosexuality |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-012-9966-y |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |language=en |volume=41 |issue=4 |pages=757 |doi=10.1007/s10508-012-9966-y |pmid=22622659 |issn=1573-2800}}

In March, 2023, the Archives of Sexual Behavior published a paper on rapid-onset gender dysphoria, authored by J. Michael Bailey and Suzanna Diaz, which has been described as "methodologically flawed" by the Southern Poverty Law Centre.

Researchers and LGBTQ organizations wrote an open letter to Springer Nature, the publisher, charging that the paper lacked institutional review board (IRB) approval and replicates "the severe methodological and interpretive flaws of previous research".{{cite news |title=Open Letter re: Archives of Sexual Behavior |date=2023-05-05 |url=https://asbopenletter.com/ |website=asbopenletter.com |access-date=2024-01-11 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122025613/https://asbopenletter.com/ |archive-date= Jan 22, 2024 }}{{Cite news |last=Fiore |first=Kristina |date=May 24, 2023 |title=Sexual Behavior Journal Under Fire Over Gender Dysphoria Paper |url=https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/104685 |work=Medpage today}} The letter also stated the journal had a history of publishing questionable research under Zucker and signatories pledged to boycott the journal until Zucker was "replaced with an editor who has a demonstrated record of integrity on LGBTQ+ matters, and, especially, trans matters." The press officer of the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, which signed the letter, stated that "[a]rticles published in the journal during Dr. Zucker's editorship have repeatedly drawn criticism from the sections of the LGBTQ+ community about which the article claims to advance sexological knowledge".

On May 10, a Publisher's Note was added to the article noting that concerns had been raised about its methodology. A spokesperson for Springer Nature said the paper's supplementary information "has been removed and a note added to record that this has been removed due to a lack of documented consent by study participants". The same month, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism launched a counter-petition calling for Zucker to be kept and the article not be retracted, with signatories from the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine, Genspect, the Gender Exploratory Therapy Association, and the American College of Pediatricians.{{Cite web |date=December 12, 2023 |title=Group dynamics and division of labor within the anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience network |url=https://www.splcenter.org/captain/defining-pseudoscience-network |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Southern Poverty Law Center}} The paper was retracted by Springer in June 2023 due to the lack of IRB approval.{{Cite journal |date=2023-11-01 |title=Retraction Note: Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria: Parent Reports on 1655 Possible Cases |journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior |volume=52 |issue=8 |pages=3577 |doi=10.1007/s10508-023-02635-1 |pmc=10703958 |pmid=37314659 |last1=Diaz |first1=Suzanna |last2=Michael Bailey |first2=J. }}

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