Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

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Summary: Fun book!
Review: Al and me have a lot in common. We both graduated from Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ. We're both uninterested in the myth of objective morality. Lastly, we both would do anything to reach our goals--to bring glory to our Egos! This book, along with its Female counterpart, have had about as much impact on our society as Darwin has. Even if you're a bible-totin' Xian, you should read these volumes and then do some research into Kinsey. It may be "bad science", but it's good history--and good fun!

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Summary: who wants the truth?
Review: Dr. Albert Kinsey's sex research shook America's moral foundations and launched the sexual revolution. But Dr. Judith Reisman's mind-boggling expos‚ cannot be refuted. She unmasks how Kinsey and a criminal band of pedophiles literally raped, sodomized, and tortured hundreds of little boys and girls all in the name of science. Then, they presented their outrageously flawed findings and statistics and literally changed the course of human history.
source: Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences -- The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme. In this book, the author documents how 317 infants were sexually molested by Kinsey and his "experts" and "researchers,"...

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Summary: Pioneering Work
Review: Kinsey was one of the great pioneers of the 20th century. This book was groundbreaking. Also, I found the biography by Jonathan Gathorne Hardy very insightful and clear. The radical right has been running a concerted effort to discredit Kinsey and repeal the last hundred years of progress. Kinsey's research was a huge step, not perfect, but it opened the doors on the truth of human sexuality. I hear a movie about Kinsey is coming out this fall.

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Summary: A CLASSIC Read
Review: Recent attempts to discredit Kinsey originally drove me to read Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. I'm not a scientist and was worried about Kinsey's accessibility. But like Freud, he is a great writer with an empathic style. Kinsey builds a lyrical momentum that carries the reader to each new chapter.

By actually reading the book many histrionic notions about Kinsey's work are exposed as just that. But there's more. I especially enjoyed the stats that show excessively pious people overrepresented among those practicing beastiality, and Kinsey's unintentionally droll interpretation.

But more importantly Kinsey is committed to framing sexual aberrations in a social context. I'm sure it was a great comfort to many at the time it was written, as it must still be now. Rather than viewing the individual as twisting in the wind of his own personal sins, Kinsey provides perspective via a sexual continuum which draws the individual back into the human family to which he belongs.

If you really want to know about Kinsey, read this book, not just the widely published Bible-banging protests which the first two reviews reflect.

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Summary: A classic piece of research
Review: The folks who call this book "bad science" are the folks who hate science. It is surely possible to find faults with the Kinsey Research, but the obvious answer in the real world is to DO BETTER. Interview more people with better controls and better interviewers. To date, no one has done this.

Kinsey and his staff made the interesting discovery (about 50 years ago) that the most common sexual orientation for the human male was actually one of the bisexual orientations. There are some men who are exclusively straight, and there are some men who are exclusively gay, but the most common case is the male who is attracted (to some extent) to BOTH sexes. One example would be myself -- I consider myself 100% gay, but, when it comes down to the truth, I cannot honestly say that I have NEVER had sex with a female. And a lot of other guys cannot honestly say that they have NEVER had sex with another guy. They may be 98% straight, but their orientation is SLIGHTLY bisexual.

When you compare this interesting fact with the popular American mythology that men are 95% straight and 5% gay (hmm, no bisexuals at all!), you learn a very interesting lesson!