Word: kinseyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...setting, by Donald Oenslager, also leaves something to be desired. It is easy to see where Freud found the psychosexual basis for his theories; a volume in his bookcase startlingly resembles my copy of Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. And the shelves also reveal that Freud was a compulsive stealer of library books...
...Lehar. Slender, handsome, with dark blond curly hair, he was cocky, arrogant, and popular with girls, all sorts of girls. He declares that he had his first sexual experience at 2 and his first affair at nine with his governess ("I thought I was abnormally precocious until I read Kinsey"). By 17, in the words of a conservatory friend, he was a "sexual democrat." Once, having outrun his credit at a brothel, he paid off his debt by entertaining at the madam's piano...
...Many women must resign themselves to a less-than-satisfying marriage, for social reasons." See MEDICINE, Kinsey Revisited...
...novel notions advanced by the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, few were more startling than his contention that sexual frigidity is no longer any great problem for U.S. women. In his best-selling Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, based on interviews with 5.940 women, Kinsey came up with figures indicating that 66% of all U.S. married women experienced orgasm in sexual relations with their husbands at least half the time. Fortnight ago, at a meeting of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine, Kinsey's happy conclusion came under heavy fire...
Back to Femininity. Frigidity often escapes diagnosis. Linden believes, either because the woman refuses to admit it-one of the factors that probably misled Kinsey-or because her physician shies away from "delicate" questions on the subject of sex. When the frigid woman does appear in a doctor's office, it is to complain of "vague physical or psychological ailments": headaches, fitful sleep, nervousness or nonspecific feelings of inadequacy. "The commonly prescribed treatment," says Dr. Linden, "consists of some tranquilizer or relaxant, supportive and complimentary reassurance, and periodic visits. The condition being treated usually does not change...