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...attempts to be scientific ... we may be overzealous, forgetting at times that we are dealing with troubled human beings. . . Infertile couples are not laboratory animals to be used for clinical research and experimentation; their case histories should not be taken by impersonal and involved questionnaires attempting to out-Kinsey Kinsey in thoroughness...
After discussing social feelings about college drinking, the report moved into a study of "Beliefs about Drinking and Sexual Behavior," which prompted one columnist to label the book a "Booze Kinsey." But its sales fall far below Kinsey's records, thus indicating that society is more curious about its neighbors' bedrooms than its barrooms...
...recently saw some of these verse exchanges and thought you might like to read a few samples. For some reason TIME'S story of the Kinsey Report produced a quantity of poems, several on Artist Artzybasheff's cover portrait of Dr. Kinsey. The theme: the doctor's bow tie sprinkled with the Mirror of Venus symbols, the biologist's sign of female. The writers wanted to know where such ties could be bought. The reply they received...
Though the female of the genus ( To say nothing of the male) Liked the geometric Venus, Kinsey's tie is not for sale...
wrote a long poem bemoaning today's loaves of "processed fluff." TIME'S Gwyneth Kahn answered: "In many ways the good old days aren't what they used to be. One can well mourn: A book of Kinsey underneath the bough, A jug of noncaloric coke, and thou Beside me, slicing loaves of processed fluff -Alas ! This is not Paradise enough...