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376 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 1 (1968)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0376 and id is 1 raw text is: Taking Stock of Studies of Sex

By EDWARD SAGARIN
ABSTRACT: Scientific studies of sexual behavior have pro-
liferated during recent decades. One period of research was
ushered in by Freud; a second, by Kinsey; and perhaps a third
is being innovated by Masters and Johnson. Four major
problems, that demand solutions at this stage of research, are
cited. They include the ethical problem of the effect of
research on the subject, the ideological one of researchers'
biases, the social one of the effects of the sexual revolution
on behavior and on human fulfillment, and the normative
one of the establishment of guideposts for sexual activity in a
world in which sex and procreation are but slightly related.
Edward Sagarin, Ph.D., New York City, Assistant Professor of Sociology, City
College of New York, has previously taught at Brooklyn College, New York Univer-
sity, and Pratt Institute. Dr. Sagarin is contributor to and book review editor of
Salmagundi, author of The Anatomy of Dirty Words (1962), and coauthor (with Albert
Ellis) of Nymphomania (1964) and The Liberal Parent's Guide to Sex Education
(1968). He is presently engaged in a study of voluntary associations of stigmatized
and deviant people.

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