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...book, says psychobiologist June Reinisch, head of the Kinsey Institute and co-author of the report with Ruth Beasley, is designed to be a "friendly encyclopedia," telling readers in question-and-answer format everything they ever wanted to know about sex but were too shy to ask. "Most people are pretty ignorant about sex," explains Reinisch. "They believe they know everything they need to know. If you believe you know something, you don't even go looking for answers." Some questions may seem trivial, she concedes, but all deal with vital information that can affect health and well-being...
There are some sharp challenges to the poll's roseate view of American wedlock. Says June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Ind.: "We estimate that approximately 37% of married men and 29% of married women have at least one extramarital affair." A survey conducted by Lillian Rubin, a sociologist at Queens College in New York City, shows a 40% infidelity rate for spouses. Greeley and Harris have two explanations for the disparity between their poll's results and the conventional wisdom: 1) most sexual surveys are either obsolete or unscientific; 2) people are victims of what...
...when Russian Zoologist Elie Metchnikoff stuck a rose thorn into the larva of a starfish and a short time later observed that the thorn had been completely surrounded by cells. The cells were phagocytes. "These little guys go back in evolution a very long way," says Carol Reinisch of the Tufts School of Veterinary Medicine. "They have the ability to distinguish between self and nonself, which is the crucial distinction...
...June Reinisch, a clinical psychologist at Indiana University's Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, also finds Hite's statistics to be of limited value. The sample is highly self-selected, she says (indeed, only 4.5% of the 100,000 questionnaires mailed were returned), and probably reflects a disproportion of malcontents. "Unhappy people are more willing to answer these questions than happy people," says Reinisch. Others object to the vagueness of Hite's subject matter and the questions she asks...
...Reinisch of the Kinsey Institute is one of many social scientists who challenge Hite's finding that 70% of women married more than five years are having affairs. Kinsey's figure for infidelity, reported in 1953, was 26%, and more recent studies, including the Redbook poll, have shown little change. Others dispute Hite's allegation that 91% of divorcees initiated the split-up. Women do take the first step in the majority of divorces, according to Berkeley Psychologist Judith Wallerstein, but her own studies indicate that the proportion is closer to two-thirds...