Volume 36, Number 15 · October 12, 1989
In Bed with Social Science
By Diane Johnson
Sex and Morality in the U.S.: An Empirical Enquiry under the Auspices of the Kinsey Institute
by Albert D. Klassen, by Colin J. Williams, by Eugene E. Levitt, edited by Hubert J. O'Gorman
Wesleyan University Press, 462 pp., $35.00
The New York Times a few months ago (June 13), in an editorial about sex crimes by children, remarked that 'sick' sex demands a 'healthy' response—these adjectives startling with their judgmental, old-fashioned ring. We live in a moral climate where 'sickness' has long been associated with sexual repression, and at a moment of considerable social latitude about sexual arrangements, with some communities considering legalizing homosexual marriage, the ACLU filing a brief in defense of polygamy, Oprah Winfrey hosting rapists on TV ('could you just tell us something about your m.o.?').
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