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Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, published last year by Kinsey and his associates, is "self-consciously scientific," Kluckhohn said. The book is a sign of the American feeling that "if you get your numbers high enough and put them all together, significant answers will come out the other end," he added...
...Only a people with out puritanical tradition, our high literacy rate, and our avid press could become so infatuated with such pedantic books," Kluckhohn declared in an address to the Massachusetts Social Hygiene Society on the implications of the Kinsey studies...
Kluckhohn compared the Kinsey reports, a forthcoming study of British sexual behavior, and Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, which presents a French attitude toward sex, as products of their respective national cultures. Kinsey's work, he said, is so clearly a manifestation of a basic tradition in American culture that it "parodies and caricatures" this tradition...
...addition, Kluckhohn charged that the Kinsey studies are scientifically inadequate. The second book has "a great deal of thinly disguised propagandistic preaching that cannot masquerade under the name of science," he said...
...anthropologist criticized the absence in Kinsey's books of any reference to love. "We don't need psychiatrists to tell us," he continued, "that an understanding of sex requires knowledge of its affectional as well as its physical side...