The Kinsey Report had it right sixty years ago

I found the article on bi-sexuality interesting and welcome in terms of its subject matter.  It brought to mind Alfred Kinsey’s great studies, and spectrum.  Seems very few people are absolutely hetero- or homosexual.  Most fall somewhere within Kinsey’s poles.  The public’s denial of widespread homosexuality also brought to mind an episode from my youth.  I won’t forget the moment.  It was a ninth grade health class in my Southern California junior high school.  The teacher was on the subject of masturbation.  He said that 99% of boys our age masturbated.  We were seated in pods of five in the class.  And I, like all the other boys,  turned to my podmates and said, “Well, I guess I’m in that 1% who doesn’t do it, then.”  Of course we were all lying through our stained drawers!

Kudos for bringing to the Lancaster reading public these off-beat, yet important issues.

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