Sex After Freud: Alfred Kinsey

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Sex After FreudAlfred Kinsey

• Chap. 5 Masturbation (in the Human Female)
• Chap. 14 Masturbation (in the Human Male)

Psy 250 Human Sexuality Dr. Muñoz Wells College
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Kinseys Research Objective

• The present study, then, represents an attempt
  to accumulate an objectively determined body of
  fact about sex which strictly avoids social or
  moral interpretations of the fact 1948, p. 5

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Kinsey, 1948 (Sexual Behavior in the Human
Male)1953 (Sexual Behavior in the Human Female)

• 16,392 life histories collected through a
  structured first hand interview
• We have asked for a record that was as frank and
  full and honest as memory would allow 1953, p.
  25
• Females 7789
• Males 8603
• Sample was predominantly white
• Age range Females 2 - 90
• Age range Males 5 - 90
• See map of where the interviews were gathered

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Interviewing

• The structured interview took the place of
  observation and of psychoanalysis
• What problems might arise?
• See p. 43 - 44 in Sexual Behavior in the Human
  Male

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Infantile Sexuality?

• Kinsey directly addresses the psychoanalytical
  view
• See views expressed on p. 163 - 164 in Sexual
  Behavior in the Human Male

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Infantile Sexuality?

• Orgasm has been observed in boys of every age
  from 5 months to adolescence. Orgasm is in our
  records for a female babe of 4 months. The orgasm
  in an infant or other young male is, except for
  the lack of an ejaculation, a striking duplicate
  of orgasms in an older adult.
• See views expressed on p. 177 in Sexual Behavior
  in the Human Male

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What is normal?Who gets to define normality?How
do we study sex in a scientific manner?

• See views expressed on p. 199 in Sexual Behavior
  in the Human Male

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Masturbation any self stimulation which is
deliberate and designed to effect erotic arousal
p. 497
Also see p. 498 where Kinsey continues
his argument with Freud and other psychoanalysts