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...Although we do not approve fully of Mr. Kinsey, your Aug. 24 cover is, in short, terrific...
...readers that it ran this "supposedly . . . scientific effort [because] we felt we could not become overpious and fail to publish it." Scripps-Howard editors had local option on how to handle the story, e.g., the San Francisco News ran only an explanation of why it was leaving Kinsey out ("This is adult reading"), while Denver's Rocky Mountain News cut out the data on teenage petting. Other editors had more trouble figuring out euphemisms for Kinsey's clinical expressions...
...Next Lecture. Some editors did their best to keep the story going, with follow-ups on what women thought about Kinsey. Many readers were indignant. The Great Bend, Kans. Tribune got so many protests "from religious groups and . . . individual readers" that it stopped a five-installment series with the first and swore off: "No more Kinsey...
...England, the Mirror's lusty coverage was countered by the usually sensational Daily Express, which omitted the report and wrote instead about "Our Sex-Sodden Newspapers." In Italy, most papers gave it only brief, rather bored play, or ignored it altogether. Sophisticated Paris simply yawned. Said Alfred Charles Kinsey, vacationing in California: "My next lecture...
...gain access to Kinsey's study, some 160 newspaper and magazine writers had signed contracts binding themselves to such restrictions as: 1) not to publish stories until release date, 2) limit them to 5,000 words, 3) submit advance copies to Kinsey for his approval on their accuracy...