Professor Emeritus Clinton Jesser has been invited by the San Francisco Institute for the Advanced Study of Sexuality (IASHS) to participate in the Institute's Pomeroy Speaker Series. Although departments of sexology have been established in both Canada and Europe, the IASHS is the world's first graduate school to award professional and advanced degrees in sexology. As early as 1975, Professor Jesser has researched sexual behavior in American society. His most recent publication, Fierce and Tender Men: Sociological Aspects of the Men's Movement, was published in 1996 by Praeger/Greenwood.
Professor Jesser was invited to speak by IASHS's Chancellor and Academic Dean, Howard Ruppel. Dr. Ruppel is Past Executive Director of The Society for the Scientific Study of Sex and the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists. He received his Master of Arts degree in 1968 NIU's Department of Sociology and was one of Professor Jesser's first students. The Pomeroy Speaker Series was named for Wardell B. Pomeroy, a former director of IASHS and an original member of the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Along with Alfred Kinsey and Clyde Martin, Pomeroy was co-author of the Kinsey Reports.
Clinton Jesser retired from the Department of Sociology in 2003. He continues to teach through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, External Programming.