Word: kinsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first family. In defiance of the 13th Amendment, Book Gresham keeps a slave called Bodoc whom he won in a crap game. Symbolically, Book is impotent, apparently the result of one of those odd Southern boyhood experiences (with a Negro woman "musty like wild grapes") that suggest Dr. Kinsey was wasting his time among the modest aberrations of Northern folk...
...Kinsey litmus would probably show that the average Frenchman is no naughtier than most people, but French novelists have made his little delinquencies into one of the most readable of literary exports. To be sure, there are the existentialist writers who manage to turn sex into a measure of personal calamity and there are the Mauriacs who turn it into a measure of sin. But for the moment, U.S. read ers can settle back in relief with two new French novels that restore the classic Gallic atmosphere to the oldest game in the world. In both The Green Mare...
Despite the imaginative title, Brief has produced little in the text to rival Kinsey. In a paragraph headed "What About Sex?" the author says "Like hunger and thirst, sex is a human drive...
Intelligence from Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research: royalties from Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's two tomes on the erotic behavior of U.S. males and females declined last year. Gravy from the books was a passionate $309,079.64 in 1954, a gelid $3,001.27 last year...
...writing concerning the showing of a film short on "Love and Kinsey," which makes marital fidelity seem old-fashioned, bourgeois, and dull...