In spite of objections of a statistical nature, the "Kinsey Report" had great influence on the education of adolescents and children, laws on sexual offences and even the private behavior of many Americans. Tukey, critically analyzed the methodology of the research while maintaining a somewhat benevolent attitude, justifying mistakes of the researcher given the circumstances and the nature of the investigation.
Cochran, Frederick Mosteller, and John W.
This article revisits the assessment that a committee specially appointed by the American Association of Statistics, made of Alfred Kinsey's book "The Sexual behavior of the Human Male", published in 1948.
This article examines how touch and tactility produced meanings for Landis’s research subjects and thus illuminated forms of sexual subjectivity not regularly associated with either histories of disability or histories of sexuality. The book represents conventional psychosexual presumptions about disabled women’s stunted personality and frustrated sexuality stemming from the absence of a Freudian “sexual moment.” Yet the original research notes, housed at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, reveal that many of these women engaged in acts of erotic touching that played a far more dynamic and complex role in the development of their sexual subjectivities than Landis or his researchers could recognize. Landis interviewed the women about their sex lives, their sexual identities, and their relationship to their bodies and published the results in 1942 under the title The Personality and Sexuality of the Physically Handicapped Woman. In the last quarter of the 1930s, Carney Landis, an associate professor of psychology at Columbia University affiliated with the Psychiatric Institute of New York, headed a CRPS-funded research project in which he conducted interviews with one hundred women between the ages of 18 and 35 who self-identified as physically disabled.
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