Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern psychiatrists, Mowrer said, have been a long while catching up. Freud's emphasis on repressed sexual energy helped put them on the wrong track. Human anxiety, reported Mowrer, is the result of dammed-up moral force, rather than dammed-up libido; as this force seeps out into a man's consciousness, he experiences it not as guilt about a real fault or sin, but as anxiety...
...expert in classifying insects, burly, Hoboken-born Alfred Charles Kinsey had 150,000 specimens available for studying a single species of wasp. As professor of zoology at Indiana University, he found no similar bank of scientific data to help answer his students' questions about the sexual behavior of human beings; the most detailed study of sex histories covered only 300 individuals. Nine years ago Kinsey, doctor of science (Harvard) and author of half a dozen textbooks (e.g., New Introduction to Biology) set out to even the scientific score...
This week, after months of excited drum-beating by science writers, Kinsey published some findings, in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (W. B. Saunders Co.; $6.50).*Kinsey, father of three children, insists that the 804-page work is "a report on what people do, which raises no question of what they should...
Class View. Sex behavior, Kinsey reports, seems to have a class angle. There is no "American pattern" of sexual behavior according to his findings; instead, there are differences as great as anthropologists find between the sexual patterns of different racial groups in remote parts of the world. The U.S. differences correspond roughly to educational levels. Many men who have gone to college, he finds, have kissed dozens of girls, had intercourse with none; but among males of lower educational levels, there is more intercourse, less petting...
...general, males of the upper levels feel that lower-level morality lacks "ideals" while the lower level feels that the college-level group is artificial and insincere in its sexual behavior-and what is worse, tries to force its patterns on others. Says Kinsey: "Legends about the immorality of the lower level are matched by legends about the perversions of the upper level...