क्लिटोरिस मधून क्रांती ...Alfred Kinsey@125

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Stephen Jay Gould :

“....Consider the anatomical site of orgasm in human females.

As women have known since the dawn of our time, the primary site for stimulation to orgasm centers upon the clitoris. The revolution unleashed by the Kinsey report of 1953 has, by now, made this information available to men who, for whatever reason, had not figured it out for themselves by the more obvious routes of experience and sensitivity.

The data are unambiguous. Consider only the three most widely read of extensive surveys—the Kinsey report of 1953, Masters and Johnson's book of 1966, and The I file Report of 1976. In his study of genital anatomy, Kinsey reports that the female clitoris is as richly supplied with sensory nerves as the male penis—and therefore as capable of excitation. The walls of the vagina, on the other hand, "are devoid of end organs of touch and are quite insensitive when they are gently stroked or lightly pressed. For most individuals the insensitivity extends to every part of the vagina."

The data on masturbation are particularly convincing. Kinsey reports from his sample of 8,000 women that 84 percent of individuals who have ever masturbated depend "primarily on labial and/or clitoral techniques."...”

(‘Male Nipples and Clitoral Ripples’ from Bully for Brontosaurus, 1991)

Byron Rogers: "...The Victorians, or at least those who wrote on the subject, believed men had only a finite reservoir of semen which had to be husbanded (nice irony, that). It was not just a matter of conservation; the stuff leaked out (which meant that well into the 20th century libertines like Frank Harris tied cords round their cocks). Circumcision was extolled as a means of preventing masturbation.

Then there was Kinsey who did not believe in conservation at all but in the principle of ‘use it or lose it’, and directed his researchers into multiple use with volunteers. For sex had come into the laboratory. A scientist injected himself with the crushed testicles of dogs and guinea pigs and claimed this made him pee 25 per cent further...."

 माझ्या ऑक्टोबर २०१७च्या पोस्ट मधून: " .... (र धों) कर्वे दुर्दैवाने ऑक्टोबर १९५३मध्ये वारले आणि त्याच वर्षी अमेरिकेत आल्फ्रेड किनसे (Alfred Kinsey) आणि इतर लिखित 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Female' हे स्त्रीयांच्या कामजीवनाबद्दलच्या समजांना उध्वस्त करणार पुस्तक प्रसिद्ध झालं!

विकिपीडिया आपल्याला सांगतो: "The Kinsey Reports, which together sold three-quarters of a million copies and were translated in thirteen languages, may be considered as part of the most successful and influential scientific books of the 20th century."

"शास्त्रीय पुस्तके" हे त्यांबद्दल वाचून कर्वेंना अत्यानंद झाला असता पण त्याहून ही जास्त आनंद हे वाचून झाला असतकी त्या पुस्तकामुळे  फ्रॉइडयांच्या स्त्रीयांच्या कामजीवनाबद्दलच्या कल्पनांना सुरुंग लागला...."
 

 

Alfred Kinsey interviewing a woman. 

courtesy: William Dellenback / The Kinsey Institute