Homosexualities

A Study of Diversity Among Men and Women

Alan P. Bell Ph.D.; Martin Weinbe

The topic of homosexuality is beset by a plethora of writing and a paucity of knowledge. Professional pundits pontificate on their pet etiological theories, and clinicians, who should know better, politicize a scientific issue by voting on whether homosexuality is an “illness.” Yet even the most elementary and basic investigatory work in this area still remains to be done and reported. Yeats’s observation that “the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity” is nowhere more applicable. Homosexualities, therefore, is a most welcome attempt at filling at least a portion of this horrendous void.

Homosexualities is the second of three planned publications on homosexuality by the Institute for Sex Research, founded by the late Alfred C. Kinsey. It is an unpretentious, somewhat biased, nondogmatic, basically sociological excursion into the gay world of the San Francisco Bay area. The authors and their associates report on interviews with over 1500 men and women, homosexual and heterosexual, of diverse races and social positions, regarding the varied dimensions of their sexual and social lives: the number and nature of their sexual relationships, levels of sexual activity, sexual techniques employed, friendship and family relationships, psychological adjustment, etc. The raw data, having been fed through a labyrinthian maze of programmers, computers, statisticians, and what have you, emerges with composite images of diverse lifestyles lived by individual human beings.

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ISBN	9780671242121
Genre	LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Copyright Date	1978
Publication Date	28-Aug-78
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	505
Language	English
Rating	NotRated
Subject	Homosexuality; Homosexuality United States; Social Science / Gay Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General; United States
BookID	5485

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