Sexual Behavior In The Human Male
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Book: Good
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Pages: Good
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Few scientific publications have shaken the foundations of public morality and self-understanding quite like Sexual Behavior in the Human Male — a landmark 1948 study that dragged one of humanity's most private subjects into the cold light of empirical inquiry. Authored by Alfred C. Kinsey, a professor of zoology at Indiana University, alongside research associates Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin, the work presents a sweeping statistical analysis of male sexual behaviour drawn from thousands of personal interviews, systematically cataloguing the full spectrum of human sexuality with unflinching scientific rigour. The book's cultural and intellectual significance is difficult to overstate: it demolished long-held assumptions about normalcy, introduced the now-famous Kinsey Scale, and laid the groundwork for the modern field of sexology. Written with the dispassionate authority of hard science yet carrying the incendiary weight of a social manifesto, its prose is precise, data-driven, and deliberately clinical — a style that paradoxically made its revelations all the more explosive. Decades after its initial publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how modern society came to terms — or failed to — with the complexity of human desire.
Author: Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few scientific publications have shaken the foundations of public morality and self-understanding quite like Sexual Behavior in the Human Male — a landmark 1948 study that dragged one of humanity's most private subjects into the cold light of empirical inquiry. Authored by Alfred C. Kinsey, a professor of zoology at Indiana University, alongside research associates Wardell B. Pomeroy and Clyde E. Martin, the work presents a sweeping statistical analysis of male sexual behaviour drawn from thousands of personal interviews, systematically cataloguing the full spectrum of human sexuality with unflinching scientific rigour. The book's cultural and intellectual significance is difficult to overstate: it demolished long-held assumptions about normalcy, introduced the now-famous Kinsey Scale, and laid the groundwork for the modern field of sexology. Written with the dispassionate authority of hard science yet carrying the incendiary weight of a social manifesto, its prose is precise, data-driven, and deliberately clinical — a style that paradoxically made its revelations all the more explosive. Decades after its initial publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male remains essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand how modern society came to terms — or failed to — with the complexity of human desire.