SOURCE: "Psychiatric Implications of the Kinsey Report," in Sexual Behavior in American Society: An Appraisal of the First Two Kinsey Reports, edited by Jerome Himelhoch and Sylvia Fleis Fava, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1955, pp. 270-93.

In the following essay, originally published in 1948, Kubie enumerates the benefits Kinsey's research has for psychoanalysts treating patients with sexual disorders.

This is the report of an investigation of the sexual behavior of nearly 5,300 white American males, between the ages of three and ninety years, from several occupational groups, and from many economic, educational, religious, and social strata from the underworld to the topmost levels of society, from crowded urban and sparsely settled rural areas, and from most national stocks and racial groups except the Negro. Not all of these various sub-groups are represented in sufficiently large numbers to satisfy the exacting statistical standards of the investigators. For this reason their goal...