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...book, Human Sexual Response (Little, Brown, $10), published last week, is already a bestseller. Written for the medical-scientific community, by Gynecologist William H. Masters and Psychologist Virginia E. Johnson, it is being bought by the general public at the pace set by the late Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948; close to 300,000 copies to date) and the corresponding female volume (1953; more than...
...rush right down to the Coop as soon as it opens today, you may be in time to snatch up one of the last remaining copies of Human Sexual Response, one of the fastest selling medical books since the Kinsey Report...
...which he presided for 26 years (until the program went off the air in 1959) with a mellifluous voice and an air of kindly concern about the trials of his growing family, striking a responsive chord with millions of fans who faced the Depression, the War and even the Kinsey Report comforted by hearing Father Barbour's paternal insights; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...past eleven," the novelist noted in his journal, "I won the victory I had so long desired") might appear something of a waste of time. American lovers are usually accused not only of wanting to win but of not exploiting their victories patiently enough-perhaps in part misguided by Kinsey, who equated rapid-fire lovemaking with superior virility. But lately a whole library of sex manuals has been telling the American male that he must be patient-and he may be paying attention...
...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...