Perper, Timothy

Timothy Perper and Martha Cornog enjoyed nearly thirty-five years of marriage by collaborating on books about sexuality and about graphic novels. They also published fiction in Analog and Oziana. Tim (PhD, CUNY) was teaching biology at Rutgers New Brunswick when he obtained a grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to study pickups in singles bars. In his book Sex Signals: The Biology of Love (1985), he described a body language sequence typical of courtship: approach-talk-turn-touch-synchronization. He told L.A. Life in 1995, "It is behavior, vivacity that attracts people, not looks,...