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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By M. Burns
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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.
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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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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This is a great book. I am a masters student and my focus is sexual health and this is a great read.
Published 4 months ago by Gradkid
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America's Sex Survey
A little dry for the popular press, but if you want to know what they found in the first national survey of sexuality since Kinsey (and the first representative national survey of... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Jason Crockett
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An Excellent Starting Off Point
This study was attacked from the beginning by the Neither Religious Nor Right. If it wasn't the questions, the methodology,and the funding, it was a political maelstrom that almost... Read more
Published on November 12, 2009 by David Champion
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Best available data
A lot of groups with particular agendas attack this study because it doesn't confirm the biases of the past. Read more
Published on December 3, 2008 by John Hwang
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Flawed
When this book was first published, it was largely panned for its research methodology. The responses and conclusions are suspect because the interviewers were deemed too... Read more
Published on August 26, 2007 by SevenDelta
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OUTDATED INFORMATION
This study was done 15 years ago! A lot has changed.
Also, while the authors are quick to dismiss other surveys and studies they neglect to tell us what is wrong with... Read more
Also, while the authors are quick to dismiss other surveys and studies they neglect to tell us what is wrong with... Read more
Published on April 5, 2007 by DeistMan
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