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...accurately these images reflect America's sexual interests, however, is a matter of some dispute. University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, whose 1994 Sex in America survey painted a far more humdrum picture of America's sex life, says the Carnegie Mellon study may have captured what he calls the "gaper phenomenon." "There is a curiosity for things that are extraordinary and way out," he says. "It's like driving by a horrible accident. No one wants to be in it, but we all slow down to watch...
...which member of the household to interview, again at random. Next they rigorously trained a cadre of 220 interviewers on the delicate art of conducting a frank discussion of sex. "Our feeling was that you could get people to talk about anything if you approach them right," says Edward Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago...
...face interviews with a random sample of nearly 3,500 Americans, ages 18 to 59, selected using techniques honed through decades of political and consumer polling (see box) - will smash a lot of myths. "Whether the numbers are reassuring or alarming depends on where you sit," warns Edward Laumann, the University of Chicago sociologist who led the research team. While the scientists found that the spirit of the sexual revolution is alive and well in some quarters - they found that about 17% of American men and 3% of women have had sex with at least 21 partners - the overall impression...
...full results of the new survey are scheduled to be published next week as The Social Organization of Sexuality (University of Chicago; $49.95), a thick, scientific tome co-authored by Laumann, two Chicago colleagues - Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels - and John Gagnon, a sociologist from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. A thinner companion volume, Sex in America: A Definitive Survey (Little, Brown; $22.95), written with New York Times science reporter Gina Kolata, will be in bookstores this week...
...report fully or thought it was nonsense. And it was according to their own prejudices and proclivities: Hugh Hefner didn't buy it, but the marriage counselors and Ph.D. types did." If anyone was initially reticent, it was the University of Chicago social scientists who conducted the poll; Edward Laumann, Robert Michael and Stuart Michaels allotted only 90 minutes for their TIME interview. But once the session began, notes Chicago reporter Wendy Cole, "our discussion of sexual fantasies, adultery and homosexuality was so engrossing that more than four hours had passed before we noticed the time. Fortunately, stamina...