SOURCE: A review of "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female," by Alfred Kinsey, in the American Journal of Sociology, Vol. LX, No. 4, January, 1955, pp. 409-10.

In the following review of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Loeb questions Kinsey's methodology and characterizes the interpretations of his findings as Victorian.

One can hardly review the latest Kinsey report [Sexual Behavior in the Human Female] unmindful of other summaries and critiques which have appeared in the last several months. Kinsey has been criticized, to list a few of the charges, for poor or inappropriate sampling, lacking a sense of humor, not being a woman, gathering lies as data, showing disrespect for love, and not being conscious of the unconscious. It is also frequently though not unanimously agreed that Kinsey and his associates have been and are carrying on important and perhaps monumental research.

With the publicity that Kinsey, his...