This is The Kinsey Report, the famous work that
almost everybody has heard of, but almost nobody has
read. There are actually two Kinsey reports, one for the
human male and human female. The Report on the human
female addresses the hot topic of what percentage of all
married women commit adultery. (The surprising answer
is: About the same percentage of married men who commit
adultery.) Another weighty question is: What percentage
of East Coast Farm Boys have ever had sex with a cow. I
will not tell you the answer to that one except to say
that it is a lot higher than West Coast Farm Boys
because out there they have girls for that. (You know
how those California girls are!) Because the Kinsey
reports are lengthy they have each been divided into two
volumes. Volume one of this book, "Sexual Behavior in
the Human Male", is about the history and method of this
study and the Factors of Sexual Outlet, such as age,
marital stratus and religion. Volume two is about
sources of Sexual Outlet, including masturbation,
pre-marital intercourse, marital intercourse,
extra-marital intercourse, sex with animals and
homosexuality. It includes the most famous and much
disputed finding of this book, which is that 10% of all
men are homosexual. This study was first published in
1948 and was based on interviews of only 8,000 men. In
spite of the small number of participants, subsequent
studies by many others have verified these results.
Perhaps the most surprising of these subsequent studies
is that studiers of vastly different human groups, such
as Chinese, Africans and Native American Indians have
produced similar results. This proves that all humans
regardless of cultural grouping have about the same
sexual habits. Kinsey, a Professor of Zoology, goes even
further than that. He finds that not only are all humans
similar but we are similar to other primates including
gorillas and chimpanzees, who have about the same sexual
habits.
|
|