HIS 184 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kinsey Reports, Heterosexuality, Human Sexuality
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Heterosexuality within marriage: advice manuals, kinsey reports. 1800s: sex is important in marriage but emphasis on controlling themselves. Key point is that sex is for recreational purposes. His interest in sexuality came from teaching a course on family relationships. He was very disturbed that many students did not know about sexual intercourse and how the body operate; he couldn"t find material that was not highly moralistic. Began studying human sexuality on his class, and collected 18,000 case studies of middle class white americans sexual experiences and histories. Creates the modern field of sexology, grounded in kinsey institute at indiana. They found that 50% of heterosexual women had experienced pre- marital sex o o o o o. Caught in the 1930s had discovered through human development is that his students knew little about how their bodies functioned o. The way women were acting were not acting as the ideal people sought.
