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Students at Indiana University are having "a lot of sex," a study from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research reported this week...
...their teen years, even though approximately 9 out of 10 eventually settle into relationships with girls. But both men and women may switch gears later on or be bisexual throughout life. "There are some people in whom sexual orientation does not maintain itself," says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University. "It's not a matter of what they prefer, it's whom they fall in love with." She cites the example of a woman who fell in love with and was married to a man for 10 years, then...
Ignoring for the moment that the 2 percent figure is almost certainly wrong (even in 1954, the Kinsey study reported 10 percent), Webb's reasoning is nothing short of a call for proportional representation in admissions. If the problem with gay students is that they constitute a higher percentage at Harvard than in America, what about the high percentage of Asian-American students on campus? Or of Jewish students...
Ignoring for the moment that Adam Webb's figure for the percentage of homosexuals in America is probably wrong--2 percent is probably too high (see Kinsey, Sex, and Fraud, 1990)--Webb's other comments need to be taken in context...
WCBS correspondent Roseanne Colletti, who narrated the segments, explains that the station decided to air the subject largely because of the publication of a new set of Kinsey Institute findings. Those had revealed nothing in particular in a very specific way: 37% of married men and 29% of married women have had at least one affair. Colletti also talked to some bewildered spouses and to counselor Magda Polenz, who gave a stunning vocal impression of Dr. Ruth Westheimer while dispensing hardhearted wisdom ("Some people just can't help themselves...