Based on interviews with over 3,000 Americans, this book provides startling information about American sexual practices--exploding longstanding myths and divulging the truth about what goes on between the sexes.
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This book is the culmination of an enormous undertaking. 9,000 addresses were selected from random geographical locations. The participants, aged 18 to 55 years, completed an hour and a half interview about their sexual practices. Anyone interested in human sexuality will want to learn about the results from this study. Although this book does not go into the depth or detail of "The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the Unites States," this book is more user-friendly. This book is a must for therapists who deal not only with sexulaity issuess but also relationship issues. Previous research has demonstrated that all couples have arguments about work, money and sex. Thus, it is essential to learn what the actual sexual practices of couples are and this book is a tool with a wealth of information.
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Driven by the publicity of American sexual habits after movies like Kinsey, I took it upon myself to begin reading into just how much of the hype was realistic. Could Americans truly be as hypersexed as Kinsey's studies seemed to show? Was it true that one out of every ten Americans was homosexual? Sex in America answers these questions as part of the first scientifically-sound mass-studies of American sexuality ever undertaken by social science. Breaking through the harsh stigma of sex and sexuality, Sex in America points in an unexpected direction: Americans aren't as Bohemian as we might think.
This finding: That Americans are not as erotic as the media and popular myth believes us to be, may be the most significant thing about Sex in America. We have been trained to think many things about ourselves and others: That AIDS can affect anyone, that sex drops off with marriage, that young people have the most partners and the shortest relationships. Through thorough, statistically-sound research, the social scientists behind Sex in America show that just about every preconception we have about human sexuality has turned out to be wrong. Now we know.
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real data,
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This book is incredible not just for the data it presents, but for the first chapter, which presents an exceptional picture of the damage that bad survey data can have on an entire nation. The incredibly ill-designed surveys of the past have warped American's views of themselves and our country, and the book details why. If there was ever a treatise on why we should all learn statistics, this is it.
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Nearly everyone has had questions about his or her sex life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncohabiting partnerships, active oral sex, having partnered sex, passive oral sex, recreational category, recreational views, partner undress, lifetime sex partners, many sex partners, twenty partners, women aged eighteen, people masturbate, sexual marketplace, secondary partners, other sexual partners, something sexually, man shortage, receiving oral sex, past twelve months, frequent sex, vaginal intercourse, forced sex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, General Social Survey, San Francisco, Current Population Survey, National Research Council, Men Noncohabiting, Men White, The Hite Report, Women Less, Women None, Alfred Kinsey, Bureau of the Census, Los Angeles, The Janus Report, Traditional Relational Recreational, Human Sexual Response, Long Island, National Opinion Research Center, Pee-wee Herman, Pretty Woman, Shere Hite, World War New!
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Nearly everyone has had questions about his or her sex life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
noncohabiting partnerships, active oral sex, having partnered sex, passive oral sex, recreational category, recreational views, partner undress, lifetime sex partners, many sex partners, twenty partners, women aged eighteen, people masturbate, sexual marketplace, secondary partners, other sexual partners, something sexually, man shortage, receiving oral sex, past twelve months, frequent sex, vaginal intercourse, forced sex Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, General Social Survey, San Francisco, Current Population Survey, National Research Council, Men Noncohabiting, Men White, The Hite Report, Women Less, Women None, Alfred Kinsey, Bureau of the Census, Los Angeles, The Janus Report, Traditional Relational Recreational, Human Sexual Response, Long Island, National Opinion Research Center, Pee-wee Herman, Pretty Woman, Shere Hite, World War New!
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