According to John Bancroft, retired director of the Kinsey Institute, IASR "can claim...most of the field's leading researchers.
Ray Blanchard, Milton Diamond, Kurt Freund, Richard Green, Lisa Diamond, Leonore Tiefer, Judith Becker, and Ken Zucker.
The 53 founding charter members were nominated by the board of the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, which became the official publication of the IASR.
The founding editor of Archives of Sexual Behavior was Richard Green.
[3] The first annual IASR meeting was held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in September 1975.