SOC 345 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10 part 2/2 : Wardell Pomeroy, Paul Gebhard, Gay Liberation
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Conrad & schneider, the demedicalization of homosexuality, pp. Alfred c. kinsey, associates wardell pomeroy, clyde martin, paul. Published their studies of sexual behavior in america: Sexual behavior in the human male, appeared in 1948. Followed by sexual behavior in the human female in 1953. Collected data from 16,392 men and women through interview and survey. Bisexual" were but synthetic mental constructs that covered an infinite variety of actual behavior . Kinsey was against the traditional medical categories of normal, abnormal, and pathological because it blocks the free investigation of sexual behavior (pp 197) Kinsey revealed data that homosexual conduct was more common than society would have believed that had an immediate effect of on cultural ideals. Kinsey explained that homosexual conduct was a normal phenomenon (pp 198) Kinsey"s conclusion: homosexuality did not exist (pp 198) There were only homosexual acts and homosexual relationships; as an identity or a disease entity -- as a.
