Quote #9

There are some who have questioned the applicability of scientific methods to an investigation of human sexual behavior... as though the dietitian and biochemist were denied the right to analyze foods and the process of nutrition, because the cooking and proper serving of food may be rated a fine art, and because the eating of certain foods has been considered a matter for religious regulation.

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  1. The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.
  2. It would encourage clearer thinking on these matters if persons were not characterized as heterosexual or homosexual, but as individuals wh…
  3. The mammalian record thus confirms our statement that any animal which is not too strongly conditioned by some special sort of experience i…
  4. We are recorders and reporters of the facts - not judges of the behavior we describe.
  5. The impression that infra-human mammals more or less confine themselves to heterosexual activities is a distortion of the fact which appear…
  6. If Kinsey is right, I have only done what comes naturally, what the average American does secretly, drenching himself in guilt fixations an…
  7. The inherent physiologic capacity of an animal to respond to any sufficient stimulus seems, then, the basic explanation of the fact that so…
  8. Alfred Kinsey was a very strange man. He was repressed sexually until quite a late age, and then expressed his sexuality in more and more b…

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