Primary Sources Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.

Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1948. The authors of this book are Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, and Clyde E. Martin. Alfred Kinsey was a biologist, entomologist, and zoologist at Indiana University. Pomeroy was a psychologist who met Kinsey and began helping him with his research. Martin had been studying economics at Indiana University when he met Kinsey. He first gave Kinsey his own sex history before helping him with his research. This source was published in 1948 as a book intended for many people, mainly teen and adult males. Dr. Kinsey wanted his information to reach anyone curious or ignorant about sexual behaviors. When his source was published, homosexuality was a crime and sex was a seriously taboo subject that was rarely spoken about. The purpose of this book was to educate the masses about sex, as Kinsey thought that it is obvious that the failure to learn more about human sexual activity is the outcome of the influence which the custom and the law have had upon scientists as individuals. As this is a book on research, there are not many noticeable biases, besides the obvious bias that Kinsey believes in the legitimacy of his own work. He does not reveal what sort of information on different topics throughout the book was previously available. This source is used in the section about what Kinseys books are about as this is one of the books he wrote and provides many examples of his research. This source was helpful in understanding the topic as it shows the revolutionary information about sexual behavior which caused the many reactions and reforms. Kinsey, Alfred C., Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, and Paul H. Gebhard. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1953. The authors of this source are Alfred C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, and Paul H. Gebhard. Alfred Kinsey was a biologist, entomologist, and zoologist at Indiana University who began research on human sexuality in the 1930s. He graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine and earned his doctorate at Harvard University. Pomeroy met Kinsey while working as a psychologist in an Indiana state hospital and began working for him. He had graduated from Indiana University and earned his Ph. D. at Colombia University in 1954. Martin had been studying economics at Indiana University when he sought out Kinsey and gave him his sex history. He then began helping him take the histories and became the first hired researcher by the project. Gebhard was an anthropologist and sexologist who earned two Ph. D.s from Harvard University. After co-authoring this book, he became the second director of the Kinsey Institute. This source was published in 1953 as a book intended for an audience of young and old women. At the time of the publication, the nation was still talking about Kinseys previous controversial book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and they were all eagerly awaiting more information either to praise or denounce. The purpose of this source was to discover what people do sexually, what factors may account for their patterns of sexual behavior, how their sexual experiences may have affected their lives,

and what social significance there may be in each type of behavior. As this is a research document, there are no clear biases, though it is obvious Kinsey believes his information is the most accurate around. Some previous statistics about sexual activity in females are shown, but in regards to many of the topics in this source, not many previous statistics are revealed. This source is used in the section about what the Kinsey Reports were about as it is one of the two Kinsey Reports and gives accurate information about Kinseys research and what it was on. This source was helpful in understanding the topic as it shows what Kinseys revolutionary research was that caused the reactions and reforms. Kinsey Book Assailed for Omitting Love. New York Times, October 12, 1953. This article was published in 1953 following the publication of the Kinsey Reports. It was published in the New York Times as a special report and its intended audience was families and Christian families in the US. At the time of the publication, the newest Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female had just been published and the population was abuzz with the newest controversial information. The main idea of this document is that the Kinsey Reports omit love in their research and that they attribute everything to physical needs. The key bias in this document is against the Kinsey Reports due to their lack of emotion on the topic of sexuality. This source is used in the section on how different religious groups reacted to the Kinsey Reports and provides arguments against it. This source was helpful in understanding the topic because it gives examples of reactions following Alfred Kinseys revolutionary thoughts and ideas in regard to human sexuality. Moral Lapse Laid to Kinsey Report. New York Times, October 21, 1950. This source was published in 1950 as an article in the New York Times. Its intended audience was most likely mothers and fathers, but also anyone who read the New York Times and would be able to pass the information along. At the time of the publication, the first of the Kinsey Reports, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, had been published only 2 years before and many different religious groups, families, and associations were outraged at the controversial information in the book. The main idea of the article was to show that many people were upset with the book and thought it weakened moral standards. The National Council of Women, the subject of the article, had called a meeting in order to adopt an emergency resolution urging coordinated community effort to insure the security of the American home. They felt that Kinseys information was going to lead to a weakening of the American home and family and also that just because Kinsey says moral standards should be changed because of the large proportion of persons violating them doesnt mean they should. Though the article is meant to be informative, a possible bias against Kinsey is evident in the fact that it does not reveal any arguments to defend Kinsey and his research. This source is used in the section about reactions against Kinseys information as it provides many arguments. This source is helpful in understanding the topic as it shows some of the reactions against Kinsey.

Scientific Parley Finds the Kinsey Report 'Incomplete,' 'Full of Facts' and Aid to Law. New York Times, December 31, 1949. This source was published in 1949 as an article in the New York Times. Its intended audience was anyone who had read Dr. Kinseys book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male or anyone who was intending on reading it. At the time of publication, the first of the Kinsey Reports, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male had been published a year before and was an extremely controversial topic. The purpose of this document was to show the contrasting feelings and ideas in regard to Kinseys information, as it presents both arguments for and against the subject. This source reveals that while an anthropologist says the first Kinsey Report falls short of the actual range of sex behavior, a lawyer claimed that it was the single greatest contribution of science to the rule-making part of law during my lifetime. No key biases are very evident in this source as it shows both sides of an argument. The information that is not revealed is what parts of the book the lawyer or the anthropologist or the other subjects in the article are speaking about. This source is used in the section on reactions towards the Kinsey Reports by using some of the arguments presented in it. This source is helpful in answering the topic because it gives examples of some reactions people had after reading the book.

Pomeroy, Wardell B., Carol C. Flax, and Connie Christine Wheeler. Taking a Sex History. New York: The Free Press, 1982. The authors of this source are Wardell Pomeroy, Christine Wheeler, and Carol Flax. It was published in 1982 as a book with its intended audience being anyone who had read the Kinsey Reports or anyone who was interested in learning about the researching process Kinsey and his team used. When this source was published, it was about thirty years after Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was published but sexuality in America was still progressing and growing. The purpose of this source was to explain the research process that Kinsey and his associates used in the process of writing the Kinsey Reports. It describes what sorts of questions were asked and how they asked them, as well as what sort of coding method they used in order to keep the interviews secret and confidential. In this source, the key bias is clearly very pro-Kinsey, as the man writing the book was one of Kinseys closest associates. But, bias aside, it is a book on research and it does its job, not leaving out any information that might be uncomfortable to read about. This source was used in the section describing Kinseys research methods and also in the section on over-representation of certain people. This source helped to understand the thesis because it shows the how Kinsey achieved his revolutionary research and also how he conducted his research was revolutionary because it was in a way and at such a huge scale that no one else had done before.

Scientific Parley Finds the Kinsey Report 'Incomplete,' 'Full of Facts' and Aid to Law. New York Times, December 31, 1949. This source was published in the New York Times as an article in 1949. The intended audience was the readers of the New York Times and anyone who was interested in the research of Alfred Kinsey. At the time of the publication of this source, Kinsey had just published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and the country was still reacting very strongly to it. The purpose of this document is to show the different types of reactions had by people across the country, both positive and negative. There are no key biases in this document because it gives arguments for both positive reactions and negative reactions to Kinseys research. The information that is not revealed in this article is what Kinseys research was about, so if someone was to read this who had not read Sexual Behavior in the Human Male they would not know what it was about. This source is used in the section on reactions following the publication of the Kinsey Reports. It was helpful in understanding the thesis because it gives examples of reactions to the revolutionary information.