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...probably right. He settled for what social scientists call a "sample of convenience," finding volunteers where he could. His numbers were huge -- some 11,000 people -- but selective and self-selected. In later years, mail-in surveys conducted by magazines like Playboy and Redbook and by Shere Hite were still less representative. Even Masters and Johnson called their own classic study "admittedly prejudiced...
...rewarding of human functions," as TIME wrote in 1970. The subject then was Masters and Johnson's book Human Sexual Inadequacy, one of four studies of Americans' sex habits to which TIME has devoted cover stories. The others: Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Shere Hite's Woman and Love, a Cultural Revolution in Progress (1987) and The Social Organization of Sexuality, the University of Chicago study that is the subject of this week's cover...
...women had made the vertical Long March to respectability in the office and the bedroom, but according to Hite, they felt abused and desperately confused. The book's statistics and haranguing tone troubled TIME writer Claudia Wallis. Yet under the sheer hype, she discovered a bitter truth that transcended sexual specifics. "Women are finding that they cannot have it all," concluded Wallis. "They are staggering under the burden of trying to be all things to all people -- the nurturing parent, the successful ) careerist, the sexual athlete. Today they are asking men to play all these roles...
...seven years later, Wallis, a senior editor, has supervised our cover on the Chicago sex survey. "There's a world of difference between this week's study and Hite's in 1987," she says. "Hite was provocative, eager to shock, but there were serious credibility problems with her data. Her report probably reflected more about her notion of the war between the sexes than about anything that was happening between the sheets. This Chicago survey has the feel of science. It may not be gospel, but it's the closest thing we've had to an honest picture of America...
Victoria's relationship with her husband martin (Robert de Neufville) is a case in point . Martin considers himself a liberated man, but he's getting fed up with being Mr. Sensitive. " I've read the Hite report," he tells us; he's even okay with Victoria's bisexuality But he can't help feeling that her telling him what she wants during sex is "like a driving lesson--left, right, faster, slower...." Enough said: she's out of there. She moves in with Lynn, and is eventually joined by Edward, who has broken up with his lover. The three...