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...Kinsey's own emotion about science may blind him to one of science's shortcomings: the great difficulty it has in dealing precisely with the emotions of human beings (as distinct from the motions of gall wasps). Kinsey can record only overt acts, or the memories of them plus a few mental attitudes of which his subjects are sufficiently aware to tell him In the female volume, which he calls a far more human document than its predecessor, he does his best to explore the psychological factors in sex. But he can only check off emotions; he cannot...
...Kinsey ... has done for sex what Columbus did for geography," declared a a pair of enthusiasts (Lawyer Morris Ernst and Biographer David Loth) forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there. Perhaps inspired by the accolade, Kinsey opens his second volume with the words : "There is no ocean of greater magnitude than the sexual function." Kinsey a dedicated explorer, has sailed a long way over that vast and deep ocean, but he has only fled the surface currents. His interviews are echo-soundings. Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must...
...female sample excludes Negroes because Kinsey had too few of their histories; it excludes women in prison because their stories differed too widely from women in ordinary life Included are females aged 2 to 90 (little girls' apparent sexual responses were reported by adults), from a wide variety of social, economy, and cultural backgrounds. Sample occupations-acrobat, archeologist, auditor, barmaid, chemist, dentist, dice girl, governess, laundress lawyer, missionary, politician, puppeteer, probation officer, prostitute, riveter, robber, social worker soda jerker, teacher, typist, U.N. delegate, WAC. *Less inhibited were some noted teenagers of the past. Says Kinsey: "Helen was twelve years...
...sturdy man wearing an unpressed suit and scuffed loafers strides determinedly across the Indiana University campus, students will nudge a newcomer and remark: "That's Dr. Kinsey." Beyond such modest attention, Kinsey has caused less stir in the college town of Bloomington (pop. 28,163) than almost anywhere else...
Bloomingtonians repeat the usual Kinsey jokes. Residents driving east on First Street point out the Kinseys' brick house (which he designed) behind a riotous growth of trees and shrubs (which he planted). Friends know him by a nickname-"Prok," a contraction of Prof. K. But on shopping streets around the town square, Dr. Kinsey passes unidentified and unnoticed...