On August 20, 1953, the media first reported some of the main findings from Alfred Kinsey's classic Sexual Behavior in the Human Female ). As many of you know, this was the first book of its kind to truly explore women's sexual relationships and behavior from a scientific point of view.
Kinsey's book caused shock worldwide and was quickly labeled “obscene” by many due to the prevailing negative views on sex in the 1950s. Today, however, we look back on Kinsey's bold work as one of the most important publications on human sexuality to date. Kinsey's research was groundbreaking in many ways, but mainly because it debunked many myths about women and their sexuality.
Kinsey found that the women he examined were far more sexual than most people thought at the time: many of them were masturbating, having sex outside of marriage, and engaging in same-sex relationships. This landmark study showed the world that men are not the only ones who have sexual needs and desires. Women, of course, also have them, and learning them is no less important than men.
But, in addition to this, Kinsey for the first time loudly announced the idea of taking into account the preferences of a woman in the marital bed, and also began to talk about the right of the fair sex to receive satisfaction, and not just be a submissive performer.
Thanks to Kinsey's willingness to publish his work, sexology has come to be seen as a worthwhile field of research.
