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There is still some medical skepticism-not to mention catcalls from the public-about Freud's preoccupation with "sex." Certainly it helped give psychoanalysis (and with it, psychiatry) a bad name. (Another reason was Freud's personal atheism.) Like the "Kinsey report" half a century later, "Freudianism" provided a handy excuse for the loose morals of Bohemians everywhere, and a handy club for belaboring all "repressed" prudes and Babbitts...
Among the book ads in the New York Herald Tribune's weekly book section this week appeared a pertinent insert by a distilling company. After receiving hundreds of inquiries and orders pertaining to the Kinsey Report, which is published in Philadelphia, Philadelphia's Kinsey Distilling Corp. finally decided that it was time to set the record straight-and get its bit of publicity besides. Said...
...contributor to The Lancet, British medical journal, has thus hymned the Kinsey report...
...Kinsey! O Jehoshaphat...
Last week London's Marriage Guidance Clinic presented to the International Congress on Mental Health (see above), a "little Kinsey Report" based on a study of 1,000 married couples. Some of the findings : more than half had "basic sex problems"; one-fourth showed "gross sex ignorance"; only 25 had read a book of sexual instruction; almost one-third of the wives were unsatisfied sexually...