Hugo G. Beigel Award

The Hugo G. Beigel Award is funded by Taylor & Francis, publisher of SSSS's journal, The Journal of Sex Research (JSR).

Clive M. Davis was the second Editor of JSR. He initiated this award, named in memory of Hugo G. Beigel, a founding member of SSSS and the first Editor of JSR, a position he held for 13 years.

This award recognizes and promotes research excellence in sexual science and is granted annually to the author(s) of an outstanding report published during the prior year in JSR. The winner(s) is selected by the JSR Editor and Associate Editors.

Selection Deadline

The selection deadline is July 1st each year.

Selection Process

All refereed articles published in JSR for the prior year are eligible for the award, with the exception of review articles in the Annual Review of Sex Research special issue, introductions to special issues, editorials, or articles in which the Editor or Associate Editors were authors.

The Beigel Award is presented to recognize research excellence in sexual science. As a result, it is not restricted to members of SSSS.

Nominee Requirements

The JSR Editor and each Associate Editor independently rate the quality of each eligible article using a scale from 1 to 5 (5 being “Outstanding”) on the basis of the appropriateness and rigor of the methods, the importance and novelty of the scholarly contribution, the theoretical significance, and the clarity of the writing.

For each article, the JSR Editor collects all ballots and averages the scores. The article with the highest average score receives the award. In the case of a tie, the award is given to both articles. The JSR Editor retains all ballots for at least two years. If there are questions about, or challenges to, the award decision, the ballots serve as evidence of a fair and transparent review process.

Review and Evaluation

Award

In the year a Hugo G. Beigel recipient is named, the recipient receives:

  • A Certificate of Research Excellence

  • A $1500 award to the first author.

  • Complimentary registration to the SSSS Annual Conference for the year in which the award is received.

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Previous Recipients

2025 Martin A. Monto, PhD; Ms. Sophia Neuweiler; “The Rise of Bisexuality: Representative Data Show an Increase Over Time in Bisexual Identity and Persons Reporting Sex with both Women and Men”; Volume 61, Issue 6

2024 Isabell Schuster, PhD; Paulina Tomaszewska, PhD; Barbara Krahe, PhD; A Theory-Based Intervention to Reduce Risk and Vulnerability Factors of Sexual Aggression Perpetration and Victimization in German University Students.; Volume 60, Issue 8

2023 Yin Xu, PhD; Sam Norton, PhD; Qazi Rahman, PhD; Adolescent Sexual Behavior Pattern, Mental Health, and Early Life Adversities in a British Birth Cohort; Volume 59 Issue 1

2022 Alice Campbell, PhD; Francisco Perales, PhD; Janeen Baxter, PhD; Changes in Sexual Identity Labels in a Contemporary Cohort of Emerging Adult Women: Patterns, Prevalence and a Typology; Volume 58, Issue 5

2021 Samuel Perry, PhD; Is the Link Between Pornography Use and Relational Happiness Really More About Masturbation? Results From Two National Surveys; Volume 57, Issue 1

2020 Ingela Lundin Kvalem, PhD; Bente Traeen, PhD; Aleksandra Markovic, MS; Tilmann von Soest, PhD; Body Image Development and Sexual Satisfaction: A Prospective Study from Adolescence to Adulthood; Volume 56,
Issue 6

2020 Christine E. Kaestle, PhD (posthumous); Sexual Orientation Trajectories Based on Sexual Attractions, Partners, and Identity: A Longitudinal Investigation from Adolescence through Young Adulthood Using a U.S. Representative Sample; Volume 56, Issue 7

2018 Karen L. Blair, PhD; Jackie Cappell, PhD; Caroline Pukall, PhD; Not All Orgasms Were Created Equal: Differences in Frequency and Satisfaction of Orgasm Experiences by Sexual Activity in Same-Sex Versus Mixed-Sex Relationships; Volume 55, Issue 6

2017 Miriam K. Forbes, PhD; Nicholas R. Eaton, PhD; Robert F. Krueger, PhD; Sexual Quality of Life and Aging: A Prospective Study of a Nationally Representative Sample; Volume 54, Issue 2

2017 David A. Frederick, PhD; Janet Lever, PhD; Brian Joseph Gillespie, PhD; Justin R. Garcia, PhD; What Keeps Passion Alive? Sexual Satisfaction Is Associated With Sexual Communication, Mood Setting, Sexual Variety, Oral Sex, Orgasm, and Sex Frequency in a National U.S. Study; Volume 54, Issue 2

2016 Taylor Kohut, PhD; Dr. Jodie L. Baer, PhD; Brendan Watts; Is Pornography Really about “Making Hate to Women”? Pornography Users Hold More Gender Egalitarian Attitudes Than Nonusers in a Representative American Sample; Volume 53, Issue 1

2015 Arielle R. Deutsch, PhD; Wendy S. Slutske, PhD; A Noncausal Relation Between Casual Sex in Adolescence and Early Adult Depression and Suicidal Ideation: A Longitudinal Discordant Twin Study; Volume 52, Issue 7

2014 Martin Monto, PhD; Anna Carey; A New Standard of Sexual Behavior? Are Claims Associated With the “Hookup Culture” Supported by General Social Survey Data?; Volume 51, Issue 6

2013 James D. Griffith, PhD; Sharon Mitchell; Christian L. Hart; Lea T. Adams; Lucy L. Gu; Pornography Actresses: An Assessment of the Damaged Goods Hypothesis, Volume 50; Issue 7

2012 Anthony M. A. Smith, PhD; Juliet Richters, PhD; et al.; Sexual Practices and the Duration of Last Heterosexual Encounter: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Health and Relationships; Volume 49, Issue 5

2011 Heidi Lyons, PhD; Peggy Giordano, PhD; Wendy Manning, PhD; and Monica Longmore, PhD; Identity, Peer Relationships, and Adolescent Girls' Sexual Behavior: An Exploration of the Contemporary Double Standard; Volume 48, Issue 5

2010 Jenifer McGuire; Bonnie L Barber; A Person-Centered Approach to the Multifaceted Nature of Young Adult Sexual Behavior; Volume 47, Issue 4

2009 Alfred DeMaris; Distal and Proximal Influences on the Risk of Extramarital Sex: A Prospective Study of Longer Duration Marriages; Volume 47, Issue 6

2008 Julie M. Albright, PhD; Sex in America Online: An Exploration of Sex, Marital Status, and Sexual Identity in Internet Sexseeking and Its Impacts; Volume 46, Issue 2

2007 Zoë D. Peterson, PhD; Charlene L. Muehlenhard, PhD; Conceptualizing the 'Wantedness' of Women's Consensual and Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences with Rape; Volume 46, Issue 1

2006 Juliet Richter, PhD; Richard de Visser, PhD; Chris Rissel; Anthony Smith; Sexual Practices at Last Heterosexual Encounter and Occurrence of Orgasm in a National Survey; Volume 44, Issue 3

2005 Patricia Barthalow Koch, PhD; Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, PhD; Debra Thurau, MS; Molly Carey, BS; “Feeling frumpy”: The relationships between body image and sexual response changes in midlife women; Volume 42, Issue 3

2004 Les Whitbeck; Ziaojin Chen; Dan Hoyt; Kimberly Tyler; Kurt Johnson; Mental disorder, subsistence strategies, and victimization among gay, lesbian, and bisexual homeless and runaway adolescents; Volume 41, Issue 4

2003 Virginia Cain; Catherine Johannes; Nancy Avis; Beth Mohr; Miriam Schocken; Joan Skurnick; Marcia Ory; Sexual functioning and practices in a multi‐ethnic study of midlife women: Baseline results from swan; Volume 40, Issue 3

2002 Erick Janssen, PhD; Harrie Vorst, PhD; Peter Finn, PhD; John Bancroft, MD; The sexual inhibition (SIS) and sexual excitation (SES) scales: II. Predicting psychophysiological response patterns; Volume 39, Issue 2

2000 Erick Janssen, PhD; Walter Everaerd, PhD; Mark Spiering, MA; Jeroen Janssen, MA; Automatic processes and the appraisal of sexual stimuli: Toward an information processing model of sexual arousal; Volume 37, Issue 1

1999 Janine Zweig, PhD; Lisa Crockett, PhD; Judith Vicary, PhD; Aline Sayer, PhD; A longitudinal examination of the consequences of sexual victimization for rural young adult women; Volume 36, Issue 4

1998 John J. Potterat; Richard B. Rothenberg; Stephen Q. Muth; William W. Darrow; Lynanne Phillips-Plummer; Pathways to prostitution: The chronology of sexual and drug abuse milestones; Volume 35, Issue 4

1997 Alfred DeMaris, PhD; Elevated sexual activity in violent marriages: Hypersexuality or sexual extortion? Volume 34, Issue 4

1996 Cindy Struckman-Johnson; David Struckman-Johnson; Lila Rucker; Kurt Bumby; Stephen Donaldson; Sexual coercion reported by men and women in prison; Volume 33, Issue 1

1995 Diane Binson, PhD; Stuart Michaels, MA; Ron Stall, PhD; Thomas J. Coates, PhD; John H. Gagnon, PhD; Joseph A. Catania, PhD; Prevalence and social distribution of men who have sex with men: United States and its urban centers; Volume 32, Issue 3

1994 Jacqueline Boles, PhD; Kirk Elifson; Sexual identity and HIV: The male prostitute; Volume 31, Issue 1

1993 Holly Devor, PhD; Sexual orientation identities, attractions, and practices of female‐to‐male transsexuals; Volume 30, Issue 4

1988 Beverly Whipple, RN, PhD; Barry R. Komisaruk, PhD; Analgesia produced in women by genital self‐stimulation; Volume 24, Issue 1

1987 Richard C. Pillard, MD; James D. Weinrich, PhD; The periodic table model of the gender transpositions: Part I. A theory based on masculinization and defeminization of the brain; Volume 23, Issue 4

1986 Barry Singer, PhD; Volume 21

1985 Bernard Apfelbaum, PhD; The ego‐analytic approach to individual body‐work sex therapy: Five case examples; Volume 20, Issue 1

1984 David Weis, PhD; Affective reactions of women to their initial experience of coitus; Volume 19, Issue 3

1983 Victor Malatesta, PhD; Robert Pollack, PhD; Terry Crotty, PhD; Lelon J. Peacock, PhD; Acute alcohol intoxication and female orgasmic response; Volume 18, Issue 1

1982 Michael Ross, PhD

1981 Donald L. Mosher, PhD; Barbara White; Effects of committed or casual erotic guided imagery on females' subjective sexual arousal and emotional response; Volume 16, Issue 4