#the kinsey report

[my-midlife-crisis]

Alfred Kinsey

[certifiedsexed]

Something my teacher said has been bugging me. Is it true that people who naturally produces testosterone has their peak libido at like, 17 years old, while people who naturally produces estrogen has it in their 30s? Like, on one hand, that makes sense based off me and my friends, but on the other hand, it doesn't based off the age of my mom when she got me (especially since I'm an accident)

No, it's not true. That varies for absolutely everyone and the addition of "naturally producing" isn't even historically accurate to the study that quote comes from, much less relevant.

Let me see if I can zoom out on this to give context to my claim. That statistic your teacher was quoting is from a book, written by Alfred Kinsey, who famously published the Kinsey reports. [Inventor of the Kinsey Scale, to add some more context.]

It's around 80 years old and while groundbreaking at the time, it can't really be claimed as accurate, especially when his studies were rather exclusive in some ways and not-all-together scientific.

Libido varies on so many different levels for different people and interacts with the bigotry they face and the backgrounds they come from and, of course, their hormone levels but its not dependent on your hormone levels.

That's a very bioessentialist claim and really doesn't have a genuine scientific backing. It was just a claim from a very famous book that blew up, specifically in the US[A], partially for its very explicit inclusion of gay men and in the general public's eye, that claim has not often been questioned.

It definitely holds true for some people! But it's not even close to accurate or a claim a teacher should be parroting but you'd be surprised how many scientific websites claim it's true despite its background and lack of proof.

Though I will say, the age your mother had you is not necessarily when she experienced peak libido. You'd kind of have to ask her to know that. And it's a little hard to know something like that with so much of your life ahead of you when your libido could potentially ramp up again.

Not sure how well I've explained this but I loved this question. Sexology history, discussing poor studies taken as scientific fact and getting to debunk bioessentialist myths? What a good addition to my day. 😂 Thank you.

Let me know if you have any other questions! Hope this helped. <3

[horror-aesthete]

Rosemary's Baby, 1968, dir. Roman Polanski

[oldshowbiz]

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

What do you think of the Kinsey scale? I've seen some lgbt people oppose the idea that sexuality can be defined by a numbered scale like that.

The Kinsey Reports played an important role in challenging the prevailing sexual mores of the late 1940s (for men) and early 1950s (for women). They were among the first widely read 'scientific reports' on human sexuality that didn't see homosexual activity - not homosexuality as an innate orientation - as a symptom of a mental disorder requiring correction.

But the Kinsey Reports are product of their time, and I see the Kinsey scale as more of a hindrance than a help in the 21st century. I can't speak on the LG or heterosexual experience with the scale, but I think it:

Artificially differentiates between bisexual people based on our sexual history, for example, by reinforcing the idea that we're just "basically straight" or "basically gay."

Implies our sexuality is a spectrum, and not a discrete orientation like homosexuality and heterosexuality. I personally find all the discussions around "trying bisexuality" and "using bisexuality as a stepping stone" and "are you a straight or gay bisexual" comments really tired and offensive.

Obscures biphobia. I've written a little bit about this ages ago, but I think LGBT activism falls into the same traps as many other forms of social activism (outside of feminism) - it assumes that all discrimination and harm occur in the 'public' sphere (as hate crimes, denial of goods, services, and employment, and/or restrictive laws) (biphobia is overwhelmingly felt in the 'private' sphere, where we face the highest rates of domestic violence, addiction, and homelessness). The Kinsey scale encourages people to see bisexuality as a 'spectrum' between 'straight' and 'gay' and that, as a consequence, makes it harder to acknowledge how our discrete orientation can - and does! - impact our lives.

Sorry, this turned into a little bit of a rant. I don't think the Kinsey scale is a useful way of approaching sexuality, particularly when used to classify bisexuals... (I'd be delighted if any heterosexual, gay or lesbian people wanted to add something about how they understand the scale!).

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[maryrouille]

A savage woman 🍊

Ethnographer Bronisław Malinowski, in his monograph The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, published in 1929, which initiated the social anthropology known today, describes the erotic fun the natives of the Trobriand Islands.

It is called kamali and involves the girl inflicting bodily pain on her partner. For a boy, it is an expression of passion, temperament and love, which can be compared to the role played by a kiss in Western cultures. A girl in love can hurt her beloved by scratching, beating, biting or using a sharp instrument, and he happily accepts these attacks and is proud of his wounds.

Erotic pain infliction does not only occur early in the pairing of young Trobrianders. When the love caresses become more passionate, the couple freely begins to use their teeth to bite each other's lips, bite the cheek, or pinch the nose and chin. Drinking blood from mutilated lips, even pulling out hair and nibbling at eyelashes (also catching each other's lice and eating them!) is part of intimate, unwitnessed lovemaking and a mutual expression of passion.

What is worth noting is that the woman, based on Malinowski's observations of wounds on men's bodies, is more active when exchanging painful caresses. 

(The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, B. Malinowski, New York 1929, pp. 252, 256-257, 333)

While studying this passage, I began to wonder if all women bite more often and are more bloodthirsty? The 1953 Kinsey Report found that men and women were almost equally sexually aroused by being bitten (55% of women and 50% of men had an erotic reaction after being bitten by their partner). I also came across information that Marilyn Monroe was known to draw blood by biting the lips of her partners. Again, I can't confirm this, so what do you think?

[nimuetheseawitch]

I'm really glad that Rosemary's Baby made sure we saw that the Woodhouse's had both of Kinsey's books on sexuality.

[swartzmark]

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[exit-babylon]

This documentary shows how "The Kinsey Reports" have been used to change the laws concerning sex crimes in America, resulting in the minimal sentences so often given to rapists and pedophiles. Further explained is that the Kinsey data laid the foundation for sex education -- training teachers, psychologists and even Catholic priests in human sexuality. What has been the consequence? And what was Kinsey's research really based upon? Working secretly in his attic, Dr. Kinsey was one of America's original pornographers. His influence inspired Hugh Hefner to launch Playboy Magazine - the "soft" approach to porn - which in time would escalate the widespread use of pornography through magazines, cable TV and the Internet. In 2006 the California Child Molestation & Sexual Abuse Attorneys reported that: "The number of victims of childhood sexual abuse and molestation grows each year. This horrific crime is directly tied to the growth of pornography on the Internet." Perhaps most disturbing, Alfred Kinsey has been accused of training pedophiles to work with stopwatches and record the responses of children being raped - all in the name of "science." Among his workers was a Nazi pedophile whose relationship to Kinsey was exposed in a German court. The information from these crimes was then recorded in "Table 34" of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. How can lawmakers use such a document to define the moral parameters of our society?

[my-midlife-crisis]

Alfred Kinsey

[chilope]

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What was the first piece of furniture you bought?

What proportion of your meals do you cook?

Foaming hand soap or normal hand soap?

Favorite chore?

Least favorite chore?

Most precious thing one of your pets has destroyed?

Any groceries you've been getting into lately?

What cleaning product do you swear by?

What's your emotional support craft?

Youtube, cable TV, or streaming?

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How many cups can you see from where you're sitting?

Which filter are you most likely to go "eh, it's probably fine" when you find out you need to change it?

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Do you go down each aisle when you grocery shop, or only the ones you know you need stuff from?

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What's a movie you saw recently that you liked?

Pro or anti tchotchkes?

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What's in your freezer right now?

Last concert you attended?

Favorite grocery store?

Paper bags, plastic bags, or reusable bags?

Do you get your government mandated 8 hours every night?

Favorite old person activity?

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Do you still own your first car?

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Aisle at the grocery store you never bother walking down?

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What little treat do you always get when you run errands?

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Honest feelings on Settlers of Catan?

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Did your relationship with your parents get better when you stopped living with them?

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If you died and your ghost was stuck in the outfit you're wearing right now for the rest of time, would you be happy with it?

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[elierlick]

Don't get me wrong, the Kinsey Reports were deeply flawed and used questionable research practices. However, they do point to the ridiculousness of today's moral panic over new studies finding 10-25% of Gen Z is queer. I'm more concerned about why that number is still so low.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

20 minutes of my life I'll never get back. 🤦‍♂️

I must be a glutton for punishment because I actually watched Kinsey Schofield's 20 min interview w/Valentine Low. May this rant save you from making the same mistake:

Valentine Low & Kinsey Schofield just reminded me that the British press is in desperate need of a grief recovery workshop to let go of their palace manufactured PR image of Sparry, "the CONSERVATIONIST," and accept the REALITY: Sparry has ALWAYS been a member of the lost boys who never intend to grow up. He loves drugs, perverted soho house sex play pens, and living a secret lifestyle in San Francisco, CA. As we saw in the South Park Documentary, Sparry has always wanted to be left alone so he can just bang on his drums all day.

The British media needs to accept that they never knew the Sparry aka Prince Harry. Much like Fergie & Andrew: The Meghans are two (2) intellectually below average individuals who married in haste. Both their academic & professional work histories indicate that these two (2) immature adults, lack even the basic skills necessary to function in society without the help of a PR "machine" whose job is to clean up their messes and repeatedly rebrand them into more acceptable members of polite society. It's past time for Valentine Low and other UK journalists to admit that they never really knew Sparry. All their Diana goodwill should now be invested into the future of the BRF (the family of Prince William)

No amount of hoping for the best or "covering up" for Sparry's misdeeds can transform the moral rot in his character. They bought and sold the PR image manufactured by the palace. It was the paparazzi & other "undesirables" who had the misfortune of observing the REAL Sparry. They watched him mistreat drivers, security, staffers, etc long BEFORE he was seduced by MEgain.

V Low believes Sparry flew a helicopter! 😳 Come on! Too many REAL service members have spoken out about Sparry's military character and performance and there's nothing good about it.

Sparry, like his wife is also a liar and a bully. He's not intellectually bright, he never was... He even bullied his grandparents before the "spectacle," he bullied Meghan's father...we heard reports about seeking a left wing wife and his interest in living in the US----all before MEgain.

Low also thinks Sparry loves his children. Has Valentine Low ever seen the invisibles? No. He's transferred a PR image to a couple of never before seen kids and their so called father. A so-called "father" who is willing to destroy his brother's children (and the innocent children of other couples) through the spread of destructive lies, has zero interest in the REAL wellbeing of anyone's kids, least of all his own.

As for the Wife: her ability to earn a college degree as an American teenager/young adult without even the offer of an ACADEMIC scholarship means that she too is mediocre and overrated. Her university commencement program states that she was a candidate for a degree in "communications" NOT some whip smart area of study like biochemistry or engineering! 🤦‍♂️

As a university student, thanks to her dad's brother (mike), she spent a measly six (6) weeks in Argentina on an exchange program (paid by her father) until she failed an exam that would have allowed her to apply for (real) jobs in the States. An intellectual or any hard worker would have studied until she passed the test. Not Rachel Meghan Markle. If no one was willing to make an exception for her low marks, then she would whore her way up a series of ladders until she found someone dumb enough to give her a platform.

No, this is NOT a "smart" couple. This couple is a cautionary tale about how Water seeks it's own level: Sparry's mother and teachers did him a disservice, just as MEgain's father did her a disservice: SPARE the rod & SPOIL the child

Kinsey believes that MEgain is "smart" because she achieved a Duchess title. (What does this tell us about Kinsey's IQ. 🤦‍♂️😳)

MEgain became a "Duchess" because she was a professional "seductress" employeed by Markus Anderson & Soho House. Everything this couple achieves is smoke & mirrors based on TRANSACTIONAL relationships where they bully & harass anyone standing in their way.

They don't even possess good work ethics, let alone above average IQs. Please call a spade a spade (or in this case a spare a spare) and stop gaslighting the public about what Sparry could have done had he not been involved with the wife.

We watched the wife verbally abuse KP staffers over bereavement flowers and feckless Sparry stood by in AGREEMENT. Wicked queen Jezebel 2.0 and traitorous king ahab 2.0. Let them go!

[trashmenace]

Encyclopedia of Abnormal Sex by Roger Blake

Encyclopedia of Abnormal Sex by Roger Blake 1965, Brandon House

One of a flood of fake sexology texts that came in the wake of the Kinsey Report, the fake scholarship used as a cover for hard core vignettes.

Highlights include a family straight out of the Aristocrats, a bike seat sniffing high school janitor, and a man who would gather up a crowd of homeless people to watch him be buggered by his chauffer, which I think was a line in Soft Cell's Sex Dwarf.

The only move new to me was 69 bagpiping, and the claim that Europeans and gay Americans are way more into armpits than American straights are.

An interesting aspect is how much is invested in the male/sadist/dominant and female/masochist/submissive binary.

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