Kiss and Tell : : Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century /

Kiss and Tell : : Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century / / Julia A. Ericksen.

Learning the details of others' sex lives is the most enticing of guilty pleasures. We measure our own practices against the "normalcy" that sex surveys seek to capture. Special interest groups use or attack survey findings (such as the claim that 10% of Americans are gay) for their o...

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VerfasserIn:
Ericksen, Julia A.,
MitwirkendeR:
Steffen, Sally A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 Asking Questions about Sex
  • 2 In Urgent Need of the Facts
  • 3 Sex in the Service of the Conjugal Bond
  • 4 Sex before Marriage
  • 5 Adolescent Fertility
  • 6 Coupling and Uncoupling
  • 7 Excising the Experts
  • 8 Gay Men and AIDS
  • 9 Politics and Sex Surveys
  • 10 The Story Continues
  • 11 Reforming Sex Research
  • Notes
  • Index

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