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Alfred Kinsey — Part 1

38 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Alfred Kinsey · 37 pages OCR'd
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HOLLYWOOD, May. 2 apy 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 ive afoul of society and the! We : More than 8 decade has| passed since the first Kinsey; Teport 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, Tis Pregnant before she marries. Eighty-five per cent of the en and 95 per cent of tie. min could be Jailed one time ther’ for some element {bf thiir sexual behavior. ~ i en Dr. Alfred Kinsey in 1956 as a resyit of a heart attack, he left tages fs Sex Research to carry on Work. One of its purposes: To provide an accurate pic-| ture of how people behave| Sexually to aid in the realistic} formulation of sexual values| and restraints, and in general to! --. aid law-making bodies, psy- SL chiatrists, sociologists, clerg?- > men.- and. other - scholars. of - | human behavior, views for the fourth report: Sex offenders. For instance, most states have! Jaws forbidding intercourse with: under-age females, whether, they consent or not. This is| statutory rape, and every prison| holds persons conyjcted-onsthis, trys Bee 25800 \Sex Offenders Figures for Kinsey Repo Vi Seygec Give ms . Dr. Gebhe a deen th bi eEground of leeply the bac! &@ 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. “As a result there are whole classes of sexual offense that; le monopolies,” Dr, Geb- notes, “Take peeping, for instfnce. “Ht you went to the police pf eny large city and asked the how many female peepers thby had caught, they’d laugh your face. They probably never] heard of such a thing.” In the same respect, you sel- dom hear of a female dressing in male clothes, or of a female who wants to change her sex] to male. One reason is that the aver- ‘sage 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- ~ fcally and emotionally, humans} j sre not given to taking only one mate. He explains it this way: : q Monogamy is a cultural con- dition we've chosen to impose on ourselves, and in conse- quence there is a considerable: amount of ext ace tivit Monogamy is generally easter for women than for men. But even ‘women ave polygamous tepdencissm cropping yp: dreams or fantasies. ~- ; REC. 76 vy inn awe — A *- j——Different Controls | Societies have taken diétent| “roads to control the of sex among their members. Thus few prohibitions apply to all’ mankind. Premarital intercourse, taboo in the United States, is socially, socle' 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 sty! Wear this perfumé. + Use [ithis| id the whole emp! beautiful—that ij} be sexuajly attractive. Adopil the mannrisms of the latest Holly- Wood stars. “So on the one hand, society is strongly encouraging sexual attractiveness. But when it comes to the logical concjusion| of sexual attractivene: xual behavior—then society suddenly] reverses itself and says: No, no,| “So we have this peculiar situation of encouragement’ on one hand and repression on the! other. It’s almost schizo; The sex offender study al-| Teady indicates such things as:! A positive correlation between, alcohol and sex offense. 1 Little connection be! Grud/addiction and sex offe man is a serious addid¢, Very] often sex life is noj{- it, Dr. Gebhard says.) nt ’ 46 may 10 1960 ! ft tt: ARAL / - Wee dee Z Tolson Mohr TS Parsons Belmont Ca}ighan M ire en Tamm Trotter W.C, S Tele? Ingram Gandy —___-— an oom —___. The Washington Post and. ‘Times Herald ‘The Washington Daily News — The Evening Stor____ New York Herald Tribune _-7 New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Joumal Date 243 1960 Neem eee
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