Honorary Doctor of Letters in 2006 from the Glasgow Caledonian University. He has been on the board of many professional and scientific committees connected with the study of human sexual conduct including the Presidents Commission on Pornography. The Sexualities section of the American Sociological Association named its distinguished prize in sexualities studies as The John H Gagnon and William Simon award and it has been awarded annually since 2001. A Fetschrift in his honor was published in 2007 (The Sexual Self, edited by Michael Kimmel). References and sources Bennett M. Berger Authors of their Own Lives (1992) University of California Press Jeffrey Escoffier (2004) Preface to Gagnon: An Interpretation of Desire University of Chicago Press Michael Kimmel The Sexual Self: The Construction of Sexual Scripts (2007) Vanderbilt University Press Gayle Rubin (2002) 'Studying Sexual Subcultures: Excavating the Ethnography of Gay Communities in North America' in E. Lewin and W . Leap Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthology. University of Illinois Press. Selected publications 1965 "Female Child Victims of Sex Offenses," Social Problems. 13:2: Fall, 1965. 1965 Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Types. New York: Harper and Row, 931 pp. (with Paul H. Gebhard, Cornelia V. Christenson, and Wardell B. Pomeroy) 1967 "Homosexuality, The Formulation of a Sociological Perspective," The Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 8:3: September 1967, pp. 177–185 (with William Simon). 1967 Sexual Deviance: A Reader, edited with an introduction written with William Simon. New York: Harper and Row, 1967, 310 pp. (reprinted in JJ. Harper edition, 1969). 1969 "On Psychosexual Development", in David A. Goslin, ed., Handbook of Socialization Theory and Research. New York: Rand McNally, 1969, pp. 733–752 (with William Simon). Reprinted in Trans-action. 6:5: March 1969, pp. 9–17. 1969, pp. 17–23 (with William Simon 1973 Sexual Conduct: The Social Sources of Human Sexuality. Chicago: Aldine Books, 1973, 316 pp. (with William Simon) 1977 Human Sexualities. Glenview: Scott Foresman, 1977, 432 pp. 1984 "Sexual Scripts", Society. Vol. 22, No. 1, Nov. – Dec, pp. 53–60. (with William Simon). 1994 Sex in America. New York: Little Brown. (Co-author with Robert Michael, Edward Laumann, and Gina Kolata.) (Translations into Dutch 1995, German 1994, Japanese 1996, Chinese 1997). 1994 The Social Organization of Sexuality. Chicago; The University of Chicago Press. (Coauthor with Edward Laumann, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels.) (Received the Gordon Laing Award for the book that added the most distinction to the list