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0-19 (Rev. 1-11-60) } ny ry % i a” aes 4 \ yo: ’ 25800 Sex. Figures for HOLLYWOOD, May.2 (AP). 23 (AP).—The Kinsey Reports ——first penetrating look ut U.S. sex habits — are continuing studies of -modern sexual problems, : The newest project: How and where human sex activity Fons afoul of society and the aw. ‘More than a decade has passed since the first Kinsey report shocked the nation with its findings: : One of two American hus- : } bands has sex relations outside -{ of his marriage, . . One of four American wives commits adultery, _ One of ten American women I is pregnant before she marries. Eighty-five per cent of the wonen and 95 per cent of tie! [ md could be jailed one time rj anpther' for some element [bf E thi ir sexual behavior, - i: Vhen Dr. Alfred Kinsey dféd in 1956 as a re of a heart attack, he left nstitute for airy on his Sex Research to c ne of ifs purposes: Work, To provide an accurate pic- ture of how people behave and restraints, and in general to aid law-making bodies, psy- chiatrists, sociologists, clergy- men-—and. other .scholars. of human behavior, | The institute’s small staff is now at work on the Indiana University campus, sifting through 2,800 prisoner inter-}. views for the fourth report: Sex offenders. “One of the problems is that the law is so constituted that a great deal of human sexual activity is, illegal,” explains Dr. Paul H. Gebhard, - institiite director, YT, = “In consequente;-many of the People who have been fined or incarcerated on sex charges will s Probably prove ta be very much like the average individual.” Statutory Rape For instance, most states have Jaws forbidding intercourse with under-age females, they consent or not. This is platutory rape, cuvette prison olds persons con’ Offenders heard of such a thing.” who wants to to male. way: rg af - Sey Leis Give lieves it is pointless to study deeply the background of a man whose offense was intercourse with his under-age fiancee. The new report, due some- time next year, covers minor and serious offenses—ranging]. from rape and offenses against| children to peeping, ——.- ] Women have been eliminated|! from the new report, largely be-|; cause most female offenses have & commercial nature, such as Prostitution, and the rest are Telatively rare. 3 “As a result there are whole classes of sexual offense that are}male monopolies,” Dr. Geb- har@ notes. “Take peeping, for e@ny large city and asked the how many female peepers thby had caught, they’d laugh in your face. They probably never In the same respect, you sel- dom hear of a female dressing in male clothes, or of a female change her sex One reason is that the aver- age woman hasn’t as strong a sex drive as the average man, Dr. Gebhard says, and, although there are exceptions, the aver- age woman never reaches, the peak of sex-interest. attdined| by the average male. Dr. Gebhard notes that phys- ically and emotionally, humans | are not given to taking only one mate, He explains it Monogamy is @ cultural con- dition we've chosen to impose on ourselves, and in conse- quence there is a considerable amount of extramartial ac- tivity. . Monogamy is generally easier for women than for men. But even women have polygamous teydaencisse, croppin in dreams or fantasies. . ra > -* aeweDifferent Controls . ' Societies have taken ‘roads to control the problems .of sex among their members. Thus few prohibitions apply to REC. 75 ent | Premarital intercourse, taboo in the United States, is socially “acceptable in many European countries and elsewhere. And sometimes ~ societles : Make trouble for themselves ‘in . the already difficult’ area of human drives and emotions. “Take our own society, for example,” Dr. Gebhard says. “There's this great stress on Physical beauty. Look at the inescapable advertising that's being pounded in on our female Population day in and day out. “Be beautiful. Dress stylishly. Wear this perfume. + Use {this soap.(And the whole empfiasis is to be beautiful—that {j| be sexuady attractive. Adoptt the mann}risms of the latest Holly- Wood stars. . “So on the one hand, society is strongly encouraging sexua) attractiveness. But when it] § comes to the logical conclusion of sexual attractivene: exual -behavior—then society suddenly reverses itself and says: No, no. “Bo we have this Peculiar situation of encouragement’ on one hand and repression on the other. It’s almost schizophrenic.” The sex offender study al-/ ready indicates ‘such things as:: A positive correlation between. alcohol and sex offense. \ Tolson Mohr —> : Parsons Belmont Little connection between! drud/addiction and sex offenshj'~ |. Cif ff man is a serious addi t,: ;Very! often sex life is noff- existent, Dr, Gebhard says.) [ld Moc ery Xb RECORDED o 46 MAY 10 1960 . The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Ster__ New York Herald Tribune _~~ New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post_w The New York Times The Worker The New Leader —_____ The Wall Street Journal eed Dote - ~ “243 1960