Word: kinsey
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...after Christmas, when Isabelle Barney looked through the peephole of her front door, someone shot her in the eye. A considerate death: painless and not much damage to the door. In "I" IS FOR INNOCENT (Henry Holt; $18.95), her best-crafted alphabetical mystery yet, Sue Grafton sends p.i. Kinsey Millhone around the small city of Santa Teresa, Calif., as if her 1974 VW were the pencil in a follow-the-dots puzzle. Armed with matchless powers of observation ("I pictured . . . his nose pierced, a tiny ruby sitting on his nostril like a semiprecious booger") and a genius for the drudgery...
These prenatal fluctuations may also steer boys toward more rambunctious behavior than girls. June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University, in a pioneering study of eight pairs of brothers and 17 pairs of sisters ages 6 to 18 uncovered a complex interplay between hormones and aggression. As a group, the young males gave more belligerent answers than did the females on a multiple-choice test in which they had to imagine their response to stressful situations. But siblings who had been exposed in utero to synthetic antimiscarriage hormones that mimic...
...better on mental-rotation tests in the spring, when their testosterone levels are low, rather than in the fall, when they are higher. Men are also subject to a daily cycle, with testosterone levels lowest around 8 p.m. and peaking around 4 a.m. Thus, says June Reinisch of the Kinsey Institute: "When people say women can't be trusted because they cycle every month, my response is that men cycle every day, so they should only be allowed to negotiate peace treaties in the evening...
...begin with, we challenge Peninsula's assertion that homosexuality is rare. In "De Scopulo," the author discredits A.C. Kinsey's 1948 finding that 10 percent of the American population is homosexual, claiming that those who participated in Kinsey's study were necessarily more open with their sexuality than the American population as a whole. The author apparently did not have the time to examine the entirety of Kinsey's work. Kinsey does anticipate this objection, and states: "We were repeatedly assailed with doubts as to whether we were getting a fair cross-section of the total population or whether...
...pressured Peninsula staffer failed to recognize not only Kinsey's own search for truth but also that of several other studies which verified the prevalence of homosexuality in the American population, namely R.T. Ross' Measures of the Sex Behavior of College Males as Compared to the Kinsey Reports (1950) and Masters and Johnson's Homosexuality in Perspective (1979). Given that these studies' results correlated precisely with Kinsey's, we wonder whether the "tireless" writer of this article was not a little eager in dismissing the 10 percent statistic. And given that, according to this statistic, 90 percent of the nation...