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Article: Fifty years after the Kinsey report. (Alfred C. Kinsey)
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- Quadrant
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- September 1, 1998
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UNLIKE THEIR lesser mammalian cousins, human beings are apt to be sexual equivocators. We rarely inform our hearts, and often our partners, what we think our genitals are up to. Alfred C. Kinsey was resolved to end all that double vision. His fervour as an increasingly obsessed herald of sexual liberation undoubtedly hastened his early death at sixty-two in 1956. As is often scornfully noted, Kinsey was a biologist turned zoologist. His lack of psychological sophistication led him to ignore the boundaries between liberal bedroom experiment and outright deviance. As Margaret Mead acidly observed, he appeared to see little distinction between sexual congress with a person ...
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