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Alfred Kinsey

1948 - Alfred Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. He interviewed 5300 men. 

1953 - Alfred Kinsey published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. He interviewed 5900 women. Kinsey’s sampling procedures may have inflated the incidence of rare sexual behaviors.

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Gebhard
Jones

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Premarital Sex
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Attitudes about Sex

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