Beauvoir, Kinsey, and Midcentury Sex
Of the many baneful cultural trends that François Mauriac associated with The Second Sex, the most prominent was a new wave of research on sexuality exemplified by Alfred C. Kinsey’s 1948 report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. In nearly one thousand pages documented with copious statistics, Kins...
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Zusammenfassung: | Of the many baneful cultural trends that François Mauriac associated with The Second Sex, the most prominent was a new wave of research on sexuality exemplified by Alfred C. Kinsey’s 1948 report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. In nearly one thousand pages documented with copious statistics, Kinsey and his team of American scientists scrutinized an extraordinary variety of sexual acts, practices, inclinations, and tastes that they had discovered among their fellow citizens. Mauriac considered the genre, the findings, and the public interest in them appalling. Writers no longer treated love and eros; they had turned toward “sexuality as an |
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DOI: | 10.1515/9781501750564-005 |