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...expert in classifying insects, burly, Hoboken-born Alfred Charles Kinsey had 150,000 specimens available for studying a single species of wasp. As professor of zoology at Indiana University, he found no similar bank of scientific data to help answer his students' questions about the sexual behavior of human beings; the most detailed study of sex histories covered only 300 individuals. Nine years ago Kinsey, doctor of science (Harvard) and author of half a dozen textbooks (e.g., New Introduction to Biology) set out to even the scientific score...
This week, after months of excited drum-beating by science writers, Kinsey published some findings, in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (W. B. Saunders Co.; $6.50).*Kinsey, father of three children, insists that the 804-page work is "a report on what people do, which raises no question of what they should...
...Scientist Kinsey and his assistants have gathered 12,214 case histories of U.S. men, women & children. Kinsey himself recorded 7,036 of them. In the 20 more years they expect to spend on the study,† he and his associates will add 88,000 histories, publish eight other volumes. Their first book is based on interviews with 5,300 white males. Answers were recorded in code to avoid embarrassment, and tabulation by punch cards made the work easier...
Criminals, clergymen, clerks, teachers, students, prison inmates, men of various types and ages were interviewed and urged to tell all. As a result of the tabulated testimony, Kinsey concludes that 85% of the total U.S. male population has premarital intercourse; nearly 70% has relations with prostitutes; between 30% and 45% has extra-marital intercourse; 37% has some homosexual experience between adolescence and old age, with the highest rate among single males...
Post Haste. In Bracebridge. Ontario, Mrs. W. W. Kinsey had returned to her through the mails an undelivered business letter which her late husband, who died in 1917, had written in 1888 to a young woman living 20 miles away...