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nel ale! Office Me To 3: Mr. Nichols /. FROM : Me Ae FORME = + SUBJECT: OK REVIEW. EXUAL BEHAVIOR TW THE ina Te 0 : andum ¢ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT/ « thor of this book ts a prdfessor of.” a i Ss zoology at Ingia University. He and his co-workers J spent ten yeors in collecting the data for this book. fe - tr@s to convey the idea, time after time, through repetition, ~~ charts and éther devices that tt ts the most comprehenst n research study of man's -secucl behavior ever compiled. *~ onal Dr. Kinsey goes into too much detatl concerning dt. Lats tnterview technique and conveys the tdea thatprobably ble hts approach to this problem ts new to the point of being revolutionary--when in fact he offers nothing new or radécal regarding interviews by looking the subject straight in 2 the eye” to prevent the subject from lying. — : . The theme of the book ts man's basic instinct to reproduce. It covers such intimate details of human relation- ships that it is questionable whether a zoologist ts capable of correctly analyzing such personal data. The validity of: a his findings obtained from high pressure interviews ts>. ~ questtonable. - - mosses Sete ey —. _, Jt ts a difficult book to read and a difficult . book to review. It ts so paradoztcal in the fields of soctology and onthropology and tts net results so controversial that a number of pro and. con revtews have been made of tt and a 244epoge "sympostum on the Kinsey report" was tssued by ~~ ‘Prentice-Hall on May 1, 1948. The symposium conststs of ,: 14 chapters, each urttten by an outstanding person tn a & chosen field to report his Figpee reaction to Kinsey's book .. N from various aspects such af bins 0 0, og cal, reli ty 3 =~ ., 80ctologtcal, psychiatrical, ‘Sk 2 = a - a i ee RECORDED” & Ae r ww Dr. Kinsey states that he and 1 ssathRfite tervt ewed | BX 12,000 subjects representing every level in our soctal strata- S -farnera, soctalites, bootleggers, ,dustnessnen, professors, A\S prostitutes and gamblers. The resul¢--a rocking report of ae} our pregjudices, sexual habdtts, preconceptions, unheard of. uv. eo behavtor patterns in vartous stratas of soctety, all wrapped ican up tn a cold, e@nolytical, 804-page book bulging with statis- tteal charts. wee gee eee s js : . GUPLiss DestRoyER Pe 888 over ime