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Sex in America
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.70973
EAN: 9780446671835
Edition: Warner Books ed
ISBN: 0446671835
Label: Grand Central Publishing
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 312
Publication Date: September 01, 1995
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Studio: Grand Central Publishing
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Editorial Review:
Based on interviews with over 3,000 Americans, this book provides startling information about American sexual practices--exploding longstanding myths and divulging the truth about what goes on between the sexes.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - OUTDATED INFORMATION
This study was done 15 years ago! A lot has changed.
Also, while the authors are quick to dismiss other surveys and studies they neglect to tell us what is wrong with them scientifically and statistically. Yet they fail to mention their own test parameters except in very vague terms giving us only total number of test subjects interviewed, less then 2,000! This seems like way too small a sample size to project what 300,000,000 Americans are doing and thinking about sex!
Rating:  - Fact Proves More Interesting than Fiction
Driven by the publicity of American sexual habits after movies like Kinsey, I took it upon myself to begin reading into just how much of the hype was realistic. Could Americans truly be as hypersexed as Kinsey's studies seemed to show? Was it true that one out of every ten Americans was homosexual? Sex in America answers these questions as part of the first scientifically-sound mass-studies of American sexuality ever undertaken by social science. Breaking through the harsh stigma of sex and sexuality, ... Read More
Rating:  - real data
This book is incredible not just for the data it presents, but for the first chapter, which presents an exceptional picture of the damage that bad survey data can have on an entire nation. The incredibly ill-designed surveys of the past have warped American's views of themselves and our country, and the book details why. If there was ever a treatise on why we should all learn statistics, this is it.
Rating: - Praise for sex in america
This book is the culmination of an enormous undertaking. 9,000 addresses were selected from random geographical locations. The participants, aged 18 to 55 years, completed an hour and a half interview about their sexual practices. Anyone interested in human sexuality will want to learn about the results from this study. Although this book does not go into the depth or detail of "The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the Unites States," this book is more user-friendly. ... Read More
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