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What Every Woman Wants. Another common fallacy, says Kinsey, is the idea that the female is slower to respond sexually than the male. Not proved, he says. "Females appear to be capable of responding to the point of orgasm as quickly as males, and there are some females who respond more rapidly than any male." But there is a difference in responsiveness which may explain the common fallacy. It lies in women's psychology...
They are not as easily stimulated to sexual response as are men. Most of them get no reaction from seeing the male form in the nude, from "beefcake" pictures of undraped athletes, or from erotic stories. What every woman wants, Kinsey has gathered from long hours of listening, is "a considerable amount of generalized emotional stimulation before there is any specific sexual contact." This is an ancient truth, known to scientists in the field and every successful husband, now confirmed by Kinsey's massive statistics...
...Workshop. Kinsey's statistical laboratory is an unlikely spot: the basement of an old, ivy-clad brick building (which also houses the department of home economics) on the tree-shaded campus of Indiana University. The door is marked "Institute for Sex Research-Walk In." A summer visitor is met by a wave of well-chilled air, and the whole atmosphere is one of scientific frigor. There is nothing in sight as provocative as a Petty calendar; only ultra-modern steel desks, work tables, filing cabinets and posture chairs...
...Though Kinsey now lists all 14 members of the institute staff as co-authors of "the female volume," the key men around him are three: Psychologist Wardell B. Pomeroy, 39, and Statistician Clyde E. Martin, 35 (who were credited as co-authors of the male volume), and Anthropologist Paul H. Gebhard, 36. These three, along with Kinsey, are the only men who know the hieroglyphic code used for taking down case histories (on 8½ by 11 in. sheets). From the code-marked sheets, one of Kinsey's three chief lieutenants transfers the data...
...Eager Helpers. Kinsey's real laboratory is the whole U.S. He will go to any amount of trouble to collect case histories from a region, a cultural group, an occupational class or a religious sect which may not be adequately represented in his samples. Stray individuals figure less and less in his work. Kinsey commonly accepts an invitation to address (without fee) an organization such as a conference of Y.W.C.A. secretaries: After he has described the nature and purpose of his study, he calls for volunteers to sign up for interviews. He often gets a response as high...