Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) Over 200,000 Americans purchased copies of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in the two months after its publication in January 1948. The Kinsey Report, as it ...

Since the Puritans and Hester Prynne, a gap between cultural norms and actual sexual behavior has been a constant and problematic feature of American life. Illuminating this gap was the great ...

Few scientific publications have made the public splash of Alfred Kinsey's post-World War II volumes on human sexuality. Though issued by a medical publishing house and packaged in the sober style of ...