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Sexual Behavior in the Human Male
Alfred Charles Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, ...

Indiana University Press, 1998 - 804 pages

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A CLASSIC Read

Recent attempts to discredit Kinsey originally drove me to read Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. I'm not a scientist and was worried about Kinsey's accessibility. But like Freud, he is a great writer with an empathic style. Kinsey builds a lyrical momentum that carries the reader to each new chapter.

By actually reading the book many histrionic notions about Kinsey's work are exposed as just that. But there's more. I especially enjoyed the stats that show excessively pious people overrepresented among those practicing beastiality, and Kinsey's unintentionally droll interpretation.

But more importantly Kinsey is committed to framing sexual aberrations in a social context. I'm sure it was a great comfort to many at the time it was written, as it must still be now. Rather than viewing the individual as twisting in the wind of his own personal sins, Kinsey provides perspective via a sexual continuum which draws the individual back into the human family to which he belongs.

If you really want to know about Kinsey, read this book, not just the widely published Bible-banging protests which the first two reviews reflect.


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Fun book!

Al and me have a lot in common. We both graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ. We're both uninterested in the myth of objective morality. Lastly, we both would do anything to reach our goals--to bring glory to our Egos! This book, along with its Female counterpart, have had about as much impact on our society as Darwin has. Even if you're a bible-totin' Xian, you should read these volumes and then do some research into Kinsey. It may be "bad science", but it's good history--and good fun!









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Pioneering Work

Kinsey was one of the great pioneers of the 20th century. This book was groundbreaking. Also, I found the biography by Jonathan Gathorne Hardy very insightful and clear. The radical right has been running a concerted effort to discredit Kinsey and repeal the last hundred years of progress. Kinsey's research was a huge step, not perfect, but it opened the doors on the truth of human sexuality. I hear a movie about Kinsey is coming out this fall.


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