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...famous book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred Kinsey explained why it is that some men -perhaps 18% of them-engage about equally in homosexual and heterosexual activities for at least three years during their adult lives. Women, he later explained, could also be rated on a scale from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual. To people in the middle of the scale, however, Kinsey disliked applying the term bisexual. Biologically, he noted, it refers to organisms that include the anatomy of both sexes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Bisexuals | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Today the word is commonly used to describe adults who have sexual relations with both males and females. And it is increasingly heard, for though there has been little research on the subject since Kinsey's in the late '40s, bisexuals, like homosexuals before them, are boldly coming out of their closets, forming clubs, having parties and staking out discotheques...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The New Bisexuals | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

...board itself was somewhat startled and not a little amused by the furor raised by the ad. "We never thought of the idea as kinky," said a board spokesman. Not everyone was so lighthearted. Conservative M.P. John Stokes called the ad "deplorably vulgar." Grumped another Conservative, Joseph Kinsey: "It is debasing the standards of the gas board to suggest we should share our baths." Other Britons were taken with the idea, but still found Ap practical arguments to buttress the two Tories' starchy objections. Vacationing at a hotel in Somerset, one couple forgot to turn off the taps with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flubbing the Rub-a-Dub-Dub | 2/11/1974 | See Source »

...Women are having more orgasms -Playboy's single females achieve three times the rate of orgasms as Kinsey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1973) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...Oral sex is on the increase. The incidence has increased by 50% since Kinsey. Now, according to the Playboy survey, 80% of America's singles between 25 and 34, as well as 90% of married persons under 25, had "practiced cunnilingus or fellatio, or both, in the past year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: A Sex Poll (1973) | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

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