Description
Kinsey, Alfred, et al. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. (W.B. Saunders Company: Philadelphia, 1953)
Octavo. xxx, 842 pages. Bound in maroon cloth with black and gilt on spine.
Condition: VG, tight with no bumping to corners. No dust wrapper. Spine shows minor bumping. Previous owner’s stamp on front pastedown. Signatures starting to loosen between half-title and title.
“The Kinsey Reports are two books on human sexual behavior: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male[1] (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female[2] (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy and others and published by Saunders. Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University and the founder of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (more widely known as the Kinsey Institute).
“Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was based on personal interviews with approximately 6,000 women. Kinsey analyzed data for the frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and looked at how factors such as age, social-economic status and religious adherence influence sexual behavior. Comparisons are made of female and male sexual activities. Kinsey’s evidence suggested that women were less sexually active than men.[3]
“The publications were immediately controversial among the general public. The findings caused shock and outrage, both because they challenged conventional beliefs about sexuality and because they discussed subjects that had previously been taboo.” – Wikipedia
