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An Analysis of the Kinsey Reports on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Female

by Donald Porter Geddes. 320 pgs.

Contributors:

   Donald Porter Geddes

Publisher:

   New American Library

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1954

Subjects:

Sex, Kinsey, Alfred C--(Alfred Charles),--1894-1956--Sexual behavior in the human male, Institute for Sex Research--Library

	Statement of Intention
	Introduction
	SOL W. GINSBURG, M.D., Associate Psychiatrist, Vanderbilt Clinic of Columbia University ATOMISM OF BEHAVIOR "In the '40s when rumors began to drift into the community that an exhaustive study on the sexual behavior of humans was being conducted by a group of distinguished scientists headed by a well- known entomologist, the news was welcomed by none more than by psychiatrists and psychoanalysts..."	32
	IAGO GALDSTON, M.D., Psychiatrist and Secretary of the Medical Information Bureau, New York Academy of Medicine SO NOBLE AN EFFORT CORRUPTED "There is a saying in Russian that when a bear dances the wonder is not how well he dances -- but that he dances at all..."	41
	BERNARD BARBER, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Barnard College THE THREE HUMAN FEMALES "It is one of the fundamental scientific virtues of the magnificent Kinsey Report on Women that it treats sexual behavior as the behavioral response of the total human individual..."	49
	REINHOLD NIEBUHR, Professor of Applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary in New York City KINSEY AND THE MORAL PROBLEM OF MAN'S SEXUAL LIFE "The findings of the Kinsey Report are not as disturbing as the presuppositions upon which the inquiry into the sexual habits of American females is initiated and..."	62
	BENJAMIN C. GRUENBERG, Sex Educator, Author and Lecturer	71
	EDUCATION ABOUT SEX: Changing Motives and Methods "Because sex is so close to people's emotions, and yet so far from candid speech, the second Kinsey Report will inevitably stir up resentment and hostility, as well as controversy..."	71
	HERBERT HYMAN, Associate Professor of Sociology, Columbia, University and PAUL B. SHEATSLEY, Survey Analyst, National Opinion Research Center THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD "The magnetic appeal of Kinsey's. Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Female lies, strangely enough, in its method...."	91
	ASHLEY MONTAGU, Chairman, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University in New Jersey A MOST IMPORTANT BOOK, BUT... "Both the Kinsey Reports on the Male and Female are important books, for Americans at any rate, because they have been and will continue to be responsible, for a great deal of discussion concerning subjects which are not too frequently freely and openly discussed..."	118
	EMILY MUDD, Director of the Marriage Council of Philadelphia IMPLICATIONS FOR MARRIAGE AND SEXUAL ADJUSTMENT "The Kinsey Reports have afforded the basis for two lecture discussions in the course of Family Attitudes and Sexual Behavior, a Senior elective offered by the Department of Psychiatry in the ..."	130
	MILLICENT C. MCINTOSH, President of Barnard College "I AM CONCERNED..." "I am concerned about the effect of the Kinsey Reports on young men and women of high school and college age..."	138
	DOROTHY DUNBAR BROMLEY, Program Director, Social and Political Subjects, Station WMCA, New York DOCTOR KINSEY'S Summem Bonum "Western man has traditionally believed in a whole complex of differences that distinguish men's sexual responses and attitudes from women's..."	143
	MRS. W., Mother of four teen-agers ONE FAMILY'S VIEW "M ------ was 11 years old and had been introduced to the intricacies and mysteries of the school library, for the sixth grade was to take charge of its circulation that year...."	154
	FRANK J. CURRAN, M.D., Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, University of Virginia Medical School and Director of the Children's Service Center SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE YOUNG HUMAN FEMALE AND MALE "As a psychiatrist who has spent the major portion of his professional career working with children and adolescents, I should like to record my reactions to the chapter dealing with pre-adolescent sexual development..."	165
	ELI GINZBERG, Professor of Economics, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University SEX AND THE FEMALE CHARACTER "There are many ways of assessing Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female..."	171
	EDWARD S. TAUBER, M.D., Chairman of the faculty of the William Alanson White Institute in New York City THE READING OF KINSEY AS A MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE "The layman's quest for sexual reassurance and the scientist's quest for comforting certainty will interfere with a productive understanding and exploration of human sexuality..."	183
	ROBERT E. TAYLOR, Assistant Professor of French at New York University THE MARQUIS DE SADE AND THE FIRST Psychopathia Sexualis "It is surprising that after more than six thousand years of recorded history -- to say nothing of any possible concomitant progress -- a serious book dealing with one of the most fundamental drives in the human being should still round some eyes, and arch the brows above them..."	193
	THE KINSEY REPORT by Lionel Trilling The classic essay on Kinsey	213
	ALTRUISM by Sir Charles Sherrington An essay on the relation of science to human values	232
	REACTIONS TO THE MALE VOLUME	261
	THE 20TH OF AUGUST	285
	ANALYSES OF THE FIRST FOUR IMPORTANT REVIEWS OF THE FEMALE VOLUME	297
	EPILOGUE	304
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	308
	INDEX	313

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