12 (Sac 1) Statesman, Salem Ors Friday. Aug. 21. 1353
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By ALTON L-BLAKESlfEE
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r BLOOMINGTON, Ind, 191 !- Dr.
Alfred C. Kinsey's scientific. look
at women's sex lives finds: many
popular ideas are wrong. I
He also finds that women don't
' grow old in sex activity like men,
and that the only basic difference
between men and women in sex is
mental in how-they react to
sights, sounds, thoughts, and other
psychological stimuli toward sex.
' : These two things are the cause
of much maladjustment and trou
ble in marriages.
Dr. -Kinsey authorized advance
publication Thursday of findings in
the new, 842-page t book, "Sexual
-Behavior in the Human Female,'
to appear Sept 14. It's based not
only upon interviews with nearly
6,000 females, but many other ex
perts studies of different phases
of sex.
Many Ideas Wrong
Traditional ideas which he says
are wrong are:!
That women : are slower to re
spond sexually: that they have
more sexually stimulating or ero
genous areas on their bodies; that
girls develop sexually earlier than
boys; that there are-any basic dif
ferences in the: nature of the sex
climax in men and women; that
th- sex response is more emotion
packed for a wile than a husband.
Another important point, he adds,
is that the sex lives of humans
are like fingerprints no two ex
actly alike. No person yet fits all
the averages which Dr. Kinsey and
associates have found in their work
at the institute for Sex Research,
Inc., at Indiana University.
Women show greater extremes
in sex bcuavior than men.
1920s Brought Changes
' The post-war 1920's witnessed a
sharp change in women's sex hab
its, and there's been little change
since then. More women began
engaging in pre-marital affairs and
petting and frigidity in marriage
has declined by one-third to one
half of what it had been among
wives born before 1900.
Half of women have sex rela
tions before they marry, with two
thirds of them experiencing sexual
climaxes through it.
About 26 per cent of wives at
some time during marriage have
affairs with one or more other men. j
Jibt infrequently, their husbands!
encourage them to seek such extra-marital
affairs. :
About 10 per cent of wives go
through life frigid, never knowing
what a sexual climax is. And about
28 per cent of older single women:
also never experience a climax,:
through any method of activity.
-Differ From, Men
. About 'a third of women have
never experienced a climax, by
any method by the time they mar
ry. But almost all men have done
so.
The female report, authored by
all 14 members of the institute;
points up two findings that bear
on many marriages the effects
of aging, and psychology.
r Most women, it finds, do not
reach a peak of sex activity until
about 27 or 28, though the peak
may come earlier or later.
But once they reach this Indivi
. dual peak, women maintain that
: degree of activity to the age of 50
- or 60 with no sharp decline as
they grow older. One woman of 90
still has regular sex experience, j
Men, though, usually reach a
peak at about 16 to 18. Then their
activity steadily declines with the
years. The male peak is usually
: so much higher than women's that
most men do keep having more
sexual outlet throughout life thaft
. most women. i
Aging Brings Difficulties !
Difficulties often arise because
men show this aging effect while
women don't Wives often are be
coming more interested and less iit
hibited about sex when their hus
bands are going down bill in capa
city. .
-The husbands' interest may be
dropping, especially with a wifje
' who had objected earlier in mar
riage to the frequency of his re-
- quests then, i i L
Most women 'are not stimulated
. as men are or as often as men,
- by psychological stimuli nude pic
tures, thoughts of sex, or anticipa
tion of it Husbands often fail to
understand that their wives aren't
as aroused and ready as they them
selves are.
Many wives fail to understand
that, it's-easy for a man to be
aroused, and that this accounts for
his wanting frequent union.
Extremes Illustrated I
Out of S3 kinds of stimtli studied,
only three aroused as I many or
more women than men! seeing
romantic movies, reading roman
tic literature,! and being bitten.
A third of women werejnot arous
. ed at all by any psychosexual sti-
mulL But 2 to 3 per cefit reacted
more than any men. This is one
illustration of the greatef extremes
of behavior among women.
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I Another is that while many wo
men are frigid part or all the time,
14 per cent regularly have multiple
Climaxes during a single sex act
The studies, some of them quite
new, fine there is no physical rea
sor why it may take women long
er than men to reach a sexual cli
max. Women, it says,, need steady
physical stimulation.
; They are not slower if they are
physically stimulated enough, if ef
fectivt techniques are used, and
if they are not inhibited. Also, wo
tnei. are usually- more easily dis
tracted by interruptions or noises.
20 Different Reactions
! The sex response brings 20 dif
ferent bodily reactions or changes.
Anger or rage involves 14 of these
same changes, while fear contains
hine of them, and epilepsy eight of
them. i
The fact so many of the same
changes are involved :ould explain
Vwhy frustrated sexual response
so readily turns into ange: or rage,"
Dr. Kinsey says, and why quarrel
ing husbands and wives sometimes
are making love a short while
later. . ,
- Dr. Kinsey says the findings in
3hc nevk book are probably typical
of many American women, but
does not claim it mirrors the ac
tions of all women, and certainly
not women of other countries.
As with the book on .nen,
profits from the new book, selling
' for $8 and published by W. B. Saun
ders Co., Philadelphia, will go to
the institute to finance continu
ing research.
Other Volumes Planned
Othei volumes are planned on
sex laws, sex education, marriage
problems, and other subjects. Drs.
Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Mar
tin and Paul H. Gebhard are prin
cipal co-authors of the report on
women.
The purpose of the research,
started 15 years ago, is to learn
facts about human sex. Only with
that knowledge, says Dr. Kinsey,
can more intelligent approaches
be made to solve marital sex prob
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lems, am. to design realistic sex
laws which will protect society and
its members. f. ; . "
Dr. Kinsey finds sex causes trou
ble in two-thirds of marriages it
some time or other, and that sex
problems were among causes of
75 per cent of divorces reported
by interviewed men and women.
"Sexual adjustment : represents
only one aspect and not necessar
ily the most important aspect of
marriage. No balanced program
for American youth can be con
fined to preparing them (only) for
the sexual relationship in marri
age, j ,
History, be adds, "confirms the
importance of the family."
Many Disturbed.
Law make no provision for the
40 per cent of Americans who are
sexually mature but single, and
many youths and older unmarried
women "are seriously disturbed
because the only sources of sexual
outlet available to them are either
legally or socially disapproved."
About 40 per cent of .jirls have
petted by the age of 15, and almost
all of the younger generation pets
before marriage, some to the point
of sexual satisfaction.
Devoutly religious girls and wo
me.. are less likely to have pre
marital relations, the statistics
show.
Fewer women than men are ho
mosexuals. Veneral disease may not be as
big a problem as some persons
believe. Of 1,753 women who had
had pre-marital affairs and were
questioned on this point, only 44
had contracted V.D.
The report finds that the number
of illegitimate children born each
year may actually be several times
higher than the official estimate of
130,000 annually. This Is based on
statistics that 476 out of 2,094 wo
men having pre-marital affairs had
become pregnant.
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