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SEX, the Measure of All Things
A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey
By Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

Surely, one of the greatest, most important sex pioneers of the 20th century was Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey who showed us that many aspects of sex could be measured, surveyed and studied, who revealed to us that practices like oral sex, masturbation, homosexuality, bisexuality and fetish play, practices that had been considered sinful or abnormal, were in fact quite common, normal, and mostly harmless. Perhaps because he was such a great sex pioneer, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey was also one of the most reviled, viciously slandered figures of the 20th century. In his day, he was accused of corrupting the morals of youth and tarnishing American womanhood. More recently, revelations about his personal bisexuality have caused the puritans among us to resurface and malign the entire, gigantic, groundbreaking body of his work. With Sex, The Measure Of All Things, the full, true story of Dr. Kinsey comes out. Maybe we really needed an Englishman to write a proper book on this quintessential American revolutionary, born in New Jersey but who spent most of his life in America's heartland, surrounded by cornfields and churches at Indiana University. Not a whitewash, but certainly no indictment, this biography is a fascinating, detailed, and ultimately very loving look at one of the greatest, most driven, most compassionate, tortured scientific geniuses of American modern times.

---DrSuzyB  

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