University of New York, led some to characterise it as the beginning of his rise to "giant in the field of sociological deviance" and the recession of his part in the homophile movement. 1970s In the 1970s, Sagarin pursued an active homosexual life, though he continued to characterise homosexuals as disturbed, and frequently urged them to seek therapy. He rejected the idea that homosexuality was a natural sexual variant, and criticised the new psychological and sociological studies of Evelyn Hooker and John Gagnon. However, he argued that homosexuality should be decriminalized. The real identity of Sagarin's persona, Donald Webster Cory, remained unknown until a 1974 convention of the American Sociological Association in Montreal. On a panel entitled "Theoretical Perspectives on Homosexuality", Sagarin levelled criticism at the liberationist scholarship, and in response, Laud Humphreys exposed Sagarin by calling him "Mr. Cory". After the convention, Sagarin withdrew from issues concerning homosexuality. On June 10, 1986, he died of a heart attack. At the time, he was serving as Dean Of The Graduate School Of The John Jay College Of Criminal Justice in NYC. Literary works Edward Sagarin The Science and Art of Perfumery (1945) New York, London: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. The anatomy of dirty words (1962) New York: L. Stuart Nymphomania: a study of the oversexed woman (1964) New York: Gilbert Press (coauthor: Albert Ellis) A pictorial history of the world's great trials, from Socrates to Eichmann (1967) New York: Crown Publishers (coauthor: Brandt Aymar) People in places; The sociology of the familiar (1973) New York: Praeger Laws and trials that created history (1974) New York: Crown Structure and Ideology in an Association of Deviants (1975) New York: Arno Press Norms and human behavior (1976) New York: Praeger Sex, crime, and the law (1977) New York: Free Press (coauthor: Donal E.J. MacNamara) Deviance and social change (1977) Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications The Sociology of sex: An introductory reader (1978) New York: Schocken Books (coeditor: James M. Henslin) Taboos in criminology Beverly Hills, California: Sage Publications (1980) Raskolnikov and others: Literary images of crime, punishment, redemption, and atonement (1981) New York: St. Martin's Press Crime and Punishment: An Introduction to Criminology: Allen, Harry E.; Paul C. Friday; Julian B. Roebuck; Edward Sagarin . Free Press, 1981 . Donald Webster CoryThe Homosexual in America: A Subjective Approach (1951) New York: Greenberg. Spanish translation: Mexico City: EDIAPSA, 1952.Twenty-One Variations on a Theme (1953)