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Dr. Kinsey interviewing a respondent to his survey.
 
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There are 8 critical essays on Alfred Kinsey.

Critical Essays on Alfred Kinsey
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Critical Essay by Regina Markell Morantz
11,512 words, approx. 38 pages
In the following essay, Morantz presents a historical overview of the cultural shift aided by publication of Kinsey's work and provides detailed biographical analysis of Kinsey's motives for studying human sexuality.
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Critical Essay by Lawrence S. Kubie
9,525 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1948, Kubie enumerates the benefits Kinsey's research has for psychoanalysts treating patients with sexual disorders.
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Critical Essay by Lionel Trilling
7,140 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1948, Trilling identifies Kinsey' s work as an enlightening tool to break down cultural repression of humankind's primal and universal sexual consciousness.
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Critical Essay by Joseph K. Folsom
4,080 words, approx. 14 pages
In the following essay, Folsom considers Kinsey's work as a long overdue statistical examination of human sexuality and a harbinger of related works in ethics, philosophy, and religion.
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Critical Essay by Manford H. Kuhn
3,820 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following essay, originally published in 1954, Kuhn challenges Kinsey' s conclusions as succumbing to reductionist fallacies.
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Critical Essay by Abram Kardiner
1,467 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following review of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Kardiner finds the work invaluable as a study in social trends, but faults several of his conclusions as too reliant on behaviorism.
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Critical Essay by Martin B. Loeb
754 words, approx. 3 pages
In the following review of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Loeb questions Kinsey's methodology and characterizes the interpretations of his findings as Victorian.
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Critical Essay by Sociology and Social Research
569 words, approx. 2 pages
In the following review of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, the critic commends Kinsey's research and findings, and declares the work necessary for overhauling the nation's previous works on sexuality and marriage.


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