Word: kinseys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of the hush-hush surrounding the book seemed justified. Dr. Kinsey knew, he said, of five other books trying to beat his to the bookstalls; one had been in type for months, with blanks to be filled in with Kinsey's figures as soon as they could be obtained. Besides, the suspenseful buildup was excellent publicity. The publishers (Philadelphia's W. B. Saunders Co.) were counting on a sure bestseller: they had ordered a first printing of 250,000 for the 842-page, $8 tome, were certain that the public was breathless to learn what Kinsey...
...Sound Are the Figures? Less than six years ago, Kinsey & Co. had brought out Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, first of a projected nine-or ten-volume series of sex studies. It was cluttered with statistical furniture and dull, technical writing; Saunders, a staid old medical publishing house, thought it would be doing well to sell 5,000 copies. By now, the first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio...
More serious critics took issue with the Kinsey method itself, and many of the faults found with the male report also apply to the female. Kinsey's findings are based on small samples which do not represent a fair cross section of the U.S. They are made up of 5.300 white males and of 5,940 white females. Since all of them volunteered their information, and Kinsey takes his volunteers where he can find them, the subjects are not evenly distributed geographically-most come from the northeastern states, Illinois, Florida and California. They are more highly educated than...
...Kinsey has admitted many of the limitations of his sampling, has labeled his reports preliminary: he hopes to improve on them later. In this volume he no longer tries to apply his findings to the whole U.S. And in the fine print of his statistical tables he separates the one-time errant from the long-term philanderer. But the first-glance effect of many Kinsey figures remains misleading...
...Findings. From what he has learned, within these limitations, Kinsey is convinced that a sexual revolution has taken place in the U.S. in the last 30 years, with women's behavior changed even more sharply than men's. His key findings about U.S. women...