Kiss and Tell: Surveying Sex in the Twentieth Century

by Julia A. Ericksen and Sally A. Steffen

Book Overview

Learning the details of others' sex lives is the most enticing of guilty pleasures. We measure our own practices against the "normalcy" that sex surveys seek to capture. Special interest groups use or attack survey findings (such as the claim that 10% of Americans are gay) for their own ends. Indeed, we all have some stake in these surveys, be it self-justification, recrimination, or curiosity--and this testifies to their significance in our culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674505352
• ISBN13: 9780674505353
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"