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...bent so nearly double as Author de Beauvoir, or painted the plight of woman on so large a canvas. She begins her book, in time, with a discussion of Eve in the Garden of Eden and carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced to a steely chill...
...Kinsey Retort...
...your Dec. 15 Personality sketch of Dr. Alfred Kinsey, you say: "Kinsey traveled 80,000 miles collecting gall wasps, and he measured, catalogued and preserved 3,500,000 specimens to demonstrate their individual variations." Assuming that it would require at least ten minutes to catch, make 28 measurements, and catalogue a single gall wasp, I calculate it would require Dr. Kinsey approximately 13½ years to complete the job on the basis of a 12-hour day. This allows no days off, no time for lunch, and no time to salve the stings (assuming gall wasps sting). Furthermore...
...Kinsey's study of the secret life of the gall wasp (they don't sting) took some 25 years. He had help from a research staff of graduate students, other scientists and, occasionally, his own family...
...reaction to Kinsey's gall-wasp approach to sex has been mixed, to say the least. His statistic-crammed, 804-page book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (TIME, Jan. 5, 1948), was published by a medical publishing house (W. B. Saunders Co.) and cost $6.50, but it shot up on the bestseller list with the aid of free publicity and loud denunciations. The weightiest denunciations came from religious and moral leaders, who pointed out that Kinsey's examination of men's sex life altogether denied the existence of any moral factor whatever in sexual relations...