Membership Responsibilities & Benefits

Membership Responsibilities & Benefits

There are three levels of membership:

• Student members are graduate or undergraduate students engaging in sex research at an institute of higher learning

• Associate members are engaged researchers who typically have at least three sex-related publications in peer-reviewed journals

• Full members are established sex researchers who typically have at least ten sex-related publications in peer-reviewed journals

Annual dues for IASR membership are $180 USD for Full/Associate members and $80 USD for Student members. Individuals from lower/middle-income countries receive a 50% discount, per our reduced fee policy below. After receiving their terminal degree (e.g. MD, PhD, JD), students have 2-3 years to apply for Associate or Full membership before their membership expires.

Membership Benefits: 

• Electronic access to the Academy journal, Archives of Sexual Behavior (all members)

• Reduced annual subscription rate ($80 USD) for hard copies of Archives of Sexual Behavior if purchased by January 31 each year (all members)

• Entitlement to present one first-author poster at Annual Meetings (all members)

• Reduced registration rate for Annual Meetings (all members)

• Opportunity to apply for Child Care Financial Aid to aid in covering the costs of child care while attending Annual Meetings (all members)

• Eligibility for the Best Senior (Associate, Full, and Retired members) or Best Junior (Student members) Poster Award at Annual Meetings

• Access to IASR listservs for job postings, graduate and post-doctoral opportunities, and other sex-related news and information (all members)

• Access to quarterly IASR Connect: A Webinar Series online events (all members)

Additional Full Member Benefits:

• Voting rights for officer elections

• Opportunity to run for officer positions (President or Vice President)

Additional Student Member Benefits:

• Opportunity to apply for student awards to support research in progress and/or acknowledge completed work

• Eligibility to attend the Student Pre-Conference Workshop at Annual Meetings