Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life
This astonishing biography of Alfred Kinsey, the man who launched the sexual revolution, is graphically frank about his decidedly out-of-the-mainstream sexual practices (including masochism and voyeurism), yet historian James Jones doesn't exploit the material for titillation. Instead, Jones argues compassionately and persuasively that Kinsey's personal sexual demons sparked his campaign to demolish Victorian taboos about sex by gathering the scientific data eventually published inSexual Behavior in the Human Male(1948) andSexual Behavior in the Human Female(1953). Jones reveals that the data were hardly as unbiased as Kinsey claimed, but it was world-shaking nonetheless.Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Lifeis a magnificent work of cultural history as well as a sensitive study of a troubled individual.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.