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...comics any more corrupting than the classics? Of course not, said Capp. He told of a typical American family ("named Kinsey, of course") that wanted to shield young Kingsblood, 11, a comic fan, from "stories of murder, crime, violence and S-E-X." Before the Kinseys were through, said Capp, they had thrown out Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Shakespeare and everything but the phone book. Cracked Capp: "Mr. Brown is sorry that Li'I Abner isn't Huckleberry Finn. I'm sorry that Mr. Brown isn't George Jean Nathan...
Ballyhood and banned, the Kinsey report is nevertheless required reading at Wellesley. Now on reserve in the inner sanctums of the college library, its 804 pages are receiving a thorough thumbing...
...onetime student of insects, Kinsey had set out to apply the "taxonomic approach" to human beings. This involves studying a "series of individuals" large enough to stand as "representatives of the species." By the end of another 20 years, Kinsey and his colleagues hope to have interviewed 100,000 individuals. But data from only 5,300 interviews were used for Sexual Behavior in the Human Male...
Missing Links. Far from justifying the grand inclusiveness of the book's title, this sampling has been denounced by British Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as "so poor that the only reliable figures are those for [white U.S.] college graduates in six [northeastern and Midwestern] states." Kinsey himself admits that he has not yet assembled adequate data on men over 50, on infants and very young children, on the "rural population," on "a number of the religious groups," on factory workers, and on Negroes...
...Kinsey, in his interviews, make allowances for boasting, covering up and lapses of memory? With adults, he depended largely on "looking an individual squarely in the eye, and firing questions at him with maximum speed." To many psychiatrists and pollsters, this seemed amazingly naive...