Kiss and Tell Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century

Name: Kiss and Tell Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780674036574

ISBN-10: 0674036573

ISBN-13: 9780674036574

Edition: 2001

Authors: Julia A. Ericksen, Sally A. Steffen

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Learning the details of others' sex lives is the most enticing of guilty pleasures. We measure our own practices against the "normalcy" that sex surveys seek to capture. Special interest groups use or attack survey findings (such as the claim that 10% of Americans are gay) for their own ends. Indeed, we all have some stake in these surveys, be it self-justification, recrimination, or curiosity--and this testifies to their significance in our culture. Kiss and Tell chronicles the history of sex surveys in the United States over a century of changing social and sexual mores. Julia Ericksen and Sally Steffen reveal that the survey questions asked, more than the answers elicited, expose and…

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/1/2009
Binding: E-Book
Pages: 284
Language: English

Julia A. Ericksen is Professor of Sociology at Temple University and author of Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century and Taking Charge of Breast Cancer .



Asking Questions about Sex


In Urgent Need of the Facts


Sex in the Service of the Conjugal Bond


Sex before Marriage


Adolescent Fertility


Coupling and Uncoupling


Excising the Experts


Gay Men and AIDS


Politics and Sex Surveys


The Story Continues


Reforming Sex Research


Notes


Index