内容简介
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 in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual 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 Life is a magnificent work of cultural history as well as a sensitive study of a troubled individual.
目录
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART ONE
"THE LOT OF THE BOY 1N THE CITY"
SECOND DARWIN"
"THE RIGHT STUFF"
"BE PURE IN THOUGHT AND CLEAN IN HABIT"
"FINALLY, HE JUST REBELLED"
"LOOSEN UP a BIT MORE, AJ2'
'An, I PERCEIVE THAT You ARE AN ENTOMOLOGIST"
PART Two
WE SORT OF MIGRATED TOGETHEI~'
LITYLE IMPERFECT--Too INTOLERANT"
"MY PRIMARY INTEREST REMAINS WITH RESEARCH"
"IT WAS DONE VERY, SO TO SPEAK, SCIENTIFICALLY"
"POSITIONS, WIGGLING, AND PARASITES"
"THEME ISN'T MUCH SCIENCE THEKE"
PART THREE
"You CAN WORK OUT YOUR OWN SOLUTION"
k VERY STRONG REGARD FOR INDIVIDUAL VARIATION"
"WHY HAS No ONE CRACKED THIS BEFORE~"
"THE ONLY CHOICE THAT HE COULD POSSIBLY MAKE"
PART FOUR
UNLIMITED FUNDS FOR THE EXPANSION OF OUR PROGRAM"
"To DEAL DIRECTLY WITH THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION"
"WE CANNOT USE ANYONE WHO IS AFRAID OF SEX"
cA REPORT ON WHAT PEOPLE Do"
"PROPERLY PLACED BEFORE THE PUBLIC"
SUCC..