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...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
Physicians, psychiatrists, sociologists and clergymen testified, argued and contradicted each other. Some felt that Zoologist Kinsey had poached on their professional preserves. Others were just confused...
...taxonomic" researches I presume "Sexologist" Alfred C. Kinsey [TIME, March 1] spent most of his time "looking (a fruit fly) squarely in the eye, firing questions at him at maximum speed," and getting excited about his answers...
...discussing the Kinsey report, TIME gave the impression that though laymen book reviewers acclaim the study, experts find it unacceptable. This is quite erroneous, as the inquiry has been at all times guided by scores of experts who stand in back of it. ... By the . . . realistic standard of what has been achieved before in the study of sex, Professor Kinsey's work is clearly a tremendous advance, and warrants wide attention and respect...
...remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey report...