preface to chapter 4

As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.
very true. also stated the reason why i wanted to resd this book.
 The present study, then, represents an attempt to accumulate an objectively deter mined body of fact about sex which strictly avoids social or moral interpretations of the fact. Each person who reads this report will want to make interpretations in accor dance with his understanding of moral values and social significances; but that is not part of the scientific method and, indeed, scientists have no special capacities for making such evaluations
objectivity is fundamental - note, this is also where Kinsey received most criticism.
 As a teacher in biology, the senior author had had his students bring him the usual number of questions about sex. On investigating biologic, psychologic, psychiatric, and sociologic studies to secure the answers to some of these questions, the author, as a taxonomist, was struck with the inadequacy of the samples on which such studies were being based, and the apparent unawareness of the investigators that generaliza- tions were not warranted on the bases of such small samples.
i willingly agree and have to point out that i think this is still very true nowadays - the age of self-help book explosion.
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i skipped from page 58 to 340 as this is uninteresting to me.