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...long been believed-especially in France-that the French more or less invented sex and even enjoy a monopoly on it, or at least on some of its more exquisite nuances. But now, 24 years after Alfred C. Kinsey published the first of his pioneering reports on the sexual habits of Americans, a team of French scholars has actually got around to studying sex in the land of I'amour. The result, published this week, is a massive 922-page Report on the Sexual Behavior of the French, whose findings are as surprising as were Kinsey's disclosures...
...reply at all. Only 19% of the women admitted to ever having masturbated, as compared with 73% of the men. Homosexuality proved even less popular, on paper at least; only 2% of the women and 6% of the men admitted one or more homosexual acts. By contrast, the two Kinsey studies showed that 92% of American men and 62% of women had masturbated, and 37% of the men and 13% of the women acknowledged having had one or more homosexual contacts...
...unmarried black and white girls living at home or in dormitories in 1971, more than 46% had lost their virginity by age 20, according to Johns Hopkins Demographers Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner (TIME, May 22). Comparison with previous generations is difficult because earlier studies are incomplete; Alfred Kinsey, for example, author of the first large-scale studies of sexual behavior, did not include blacks in his statistics. However, Kinsey's 1953 survey of some 5,600 white women disclosed that 3% were nonvirgins at age 15, and 23% had had premarital intercourse by the time they were...
...Perspective. "Anything that discourages heterosexuality encourages homosexuality," says Paul Gebhard, executive director of the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Is the opposite also true? Some psychiatrists speculate that the new sexual freedom enjoyed by teen-agers may lead to a decrease in homosexuality. "Because there are fewer sexual taboos in our society today, the adolescent is more likely to find a heterosexual pathway," says Dr. Judd Marmor of Los Angeles. Yet only a small number of adolescents are likely to be affected, Marmor contends, since generally "the origins of homosexuality derive from certain specific conditions in the home, and these...
...total of full-time professional prostitutes in the U.S. run as high as 500,000, and reports indicate that the number seems to stay fairly constant in relation to the population. The most comprehensive if not the most trust-inspiring figures originated with the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who reported back in 1948 that 69% of the men he interviewed had visited a prostitute at least once, and that 15% to 20% did so several times a year. From this, one team of investigators has boldly inferred a grand total of 315 million episodes of commercial sex per year...