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That's why he passed out questionnaires to his early sex education class, and that's why he eventually traveled the country to gather more evidence that is quantifiable. Also, Kinsey won't study love because love is not quantifiable. 6. Yes, because Kinsey became emotionally attached to some of his subject whom he was studying. Psychologists today are not allowed to have sex with their subjects, yet Kinsey did. Also, he involved his wife in his sexual studies, despite the fact that there was a close emotional involvement between the pair.

7. Primarily because of the sociological restraints that were in place in America during this time period, in which McCarthyism and Communist scares, and the upholding of traditional American morals was most prominent.

8. Largely because of the aforementioned moral restraints that were in place...

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People needed to be sexually liberated, but the country as a whole had not quite condoned those values -- until the 1960's.
9. Much like any taboo subject or science that is studied, businesses and corporations will attempt to back it until it is proclaimed to publicly be problematic or against the mores of society. A good example of this is the debates about cloning or stem cell research.

10.That sex is intrinsically linked to emotion, even for people who do not acknowledge it or who try to downplay this side of sexuality. Kinsey's parting comments about love and its relationship to science (that there essentially is not one) is demonstrative of this point.

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8. Largely because of the aforementioned moral restraints that were in place in American society. People needed to be sexually liberated, but the country as a whole had not quite condoned those values -- until the 1960's.

9. Much like any taboo subject or science that is studied, businesses and corporations will attempt to back it until it is proclaimed to publicly be problematic or against the mores of society. A good example of this is the debates about cloning or stem cell research.

10.That sex is intrinsically linked to emotion, even for people who do not acknowledge it or who try to downplay this side of sexuality. Kinsey's parting comments about love and its relationship to science (that there essentially is not one) is demonstrative of this point.


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