Word: kinseyisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most "in" parties. The latest Rock Hudson movie explicitly jokes about it, Doubleday Book Shops run smirking ads for The Gay Cookbook, and newsstands make room for "beefcake" magazines of male nudes. Whether the number of homosexuals has actually increased is hard to say. In 1948, Sexologist Alfred Kinsey published figures that homosexuals found cheering. He estimated that 4% of American white males are exclusively homosexual and that about two in five had "at least some" homosexual experience after puberty. Given Kinsey's naive sampling methods, the figures were almost certainly wrong. But chances are that growing permissiveness about...
...desire a cure. A generation ago, the view that homosexuality should be treated not as a vice but as a disease was considered progressive. Today in many quarters it is considered reactionary. Homophile opinion rejects the notion that homosexuals are sick, and argues that they simply have different tastes. Kinsey had a lot to do with this, for to him all sexual pleasure was equally valid. "The only unnatural sex act," he said, "is that which you cannot perform." His coauthor, Wardell Pomeroy, also argues that homosexuality should be accepted as a fact of human existence, and claims to have...
...ages have experienced sex, the question persists: What is it? The average man's or woman's answers are as uninformative as the paeans of poets, and not until a century ago did medical science tackle the question. Then even such pioneers as Krafft-Ebing, Freud and Kinsey relied on what their subjects told them - and gathered mostly emotion-laden impressions...
...Love Relationship. For his statistics, Sanford accepts such questionnaire-based studies as Katherine B. Davis' Factors in the Sex Life of 2,200 Women (1929) and Dorothy Bromley and Florence Britten's Youth and Sex (1938) for the earlier periods, and Kinsey's interview-based statistics on sexual practices through the late '40s. As for the present, Sanford and a team of researchers from Stanford interviewed girls at an Eastern women's college, a Western public university and a Western private university. At each, the team followed a random sample of women through their full...
...Surface: The Confessions of an Olympic Champion (William Morrow; $5), it has the splash of a poolside Peyton Place. "Olympic morals," Dawn confides, "are far more loose than any outsider would expect. There's material in the average Olympic Village for a thesis which might earn any budding Kinsey a Ph.D." Dawn should know. She's been going to the Olympics since 1956 -and taking notes, apparently, all the while...