Jim Pfaus receives the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality

Jim Pfaus was the 2014 recipient of the prestigious Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award by the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality (SSSS), given on November 7th at their annual meeting in Omaha, NE.  His talk for the plenary was entitled "The Pleasure Principle revisited: How sexual pleasure links sexual arousal, desire, preference, and performance".

This award has been given by the SSSS since 1959. Previous recipients have included illustrious human sex researchers like Masters and Johnson, Albert Ellis, Vern Bullough, Sandra Leiblum, Harold Lief, Bev Whipple, John Money and Anke Ehrhardt; former directors of the Kinsey Institute, like John Bancroft and Julia Heiman; the medical director of Planned Parenthood, Mary Calderone; and many of Kinsey's co-authors and research collaborators. Only one other animal behavior person has won this award: Frank A. Beach. Notable Canadian recipients have included E. Sandra Byers of the University of New Brunswick and Bill Fisher from Western.