Kinsey
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[edit] Online Sex Survey
Here it is! We only had time for roughly 10 people to do the survey in class, so we'd like to get a bigger sampling before we release the results. The questions are deeply personal, mostly taken directly from the questions Kinsey himself used in his interviews. None of your personal information is collected, and all the answers are encrypted to the database in random order, making it impossible for anyone (even me) to determine which answers are yours.
I would like to get everyone in the class to participate in the survey. It only takes a few minutes and is quite fun! It's all multiple choice and gives a very fascinating insight into the dynamics and demographics of human sexuality. To begin, please click the survey link below:
http://www.kriscraig.com/TESC/kinsey/
Thanks!
--Kris
[edit] The Kinsey Report
An analysis of the first comprehensive, objective, and scientific research study of diverse human sexuality.
[edit] Background
A professor of Zoology, Alfred Kinsey had a love of science, despite his religious upbringing which discouraged his curiosity. While at Indiana University, he was concerned about the lack of knowledge his students had about their sexual health and the faculty’s attitude about the subject. He was even more disturbed that students were receiving false information from their superiors about sexuality. In response to this lack of knowledge, Kinsey began teaching a marriage course at the University. It’s popularity prompted him to start probing deeper into human sexuality.Funding for Kinsey’s work came from The Medical Science Division of the Rockefeller Foundation. By 1947 he had received $40,000 for his first report. The phenomenal success guaranteed more funding for the second report, however it made the Foundation uneasy about being associated with Kinsey’s work and they advised Kinsey to steer away from controversy in the future. When Dean Rusk became the president of the Foundation in 1950, his conservative stand threatened Kinsey’s work. He did not see Kinsey’s work from a biological stand point, but rather from a social one. When Kinsey’s second report was published, Rusk and the Foundation declined Kinsey’s request for more funding after the outrageous storm of controversy the book received.
[edit] Controversy
The first report,Sexual bahvior in the Human Male published in 1947, was the result of hundred of interviews Kinsey had preformed in order to learn more about the sexual activities of men of all ages, races, and from every socioeconomic background. Subjects discussed in the report include masturbation, prostitutes, homosexual activity, activity of married partners as well as extra and pre marital sex. His finding reveled that all of these activities were common, therefore normal, not something the conservative public wanted to acknowledge as such. Kinsey’s neutrality on these subjects and his refusal to condemn what he saw as normal sexual outlet, was the source of the controversy. To defend their idea of normal sexuality, conservatives began criticizing the data itself, claiming the information was incorrect because they felt the sample of selected people interviewed did not represent the overall populace among other reasons. Though the book sold at a phenomenal rate, many refused to accept the book as fact. Kinsey finished his second report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953, six years after the first. Because the book was about female sexuality, something considered offensive and damaging to the wholesome housewife icon, Kinsey took the precaution of inviting press to the books release and giving them opportunity to have the data interpreted for them, so they wouldn’t warp the data and advertise it as such. This plan of action did nothing to calm the righteous anger of the conservative population. They felt classifying masturbation, premarital and extramarital sex and homosexuality as normal were not appropriate for women. They did not want their wives, mothers, or daughters to believe such behaviors were natural. Like the first report, they felt this information was false. They felt Kinsey should have had a disclaimer in his report stating this and they were disturbed that he did not such thing. Kinsey’s formal career ended shortly after the release of the book.
[edit] Lasting effects of the report
Despite the criticism the two books received, they had a profound effect on the idea of sexuality and normalcy. The scientific way in which taboo subject matter were approached took the stigma out and left the participant feel less guilty about indulging. The guilt and fear attached to certain sex acts would never be as intense again.
[edit] Images (free porn!)
[edit] Links (more porn)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sex_positions
[edit] Bibliography
God told us.
