Sexual Behavior in the Human Female by Alfred C. Kinsey

Author:Alfred C. Kinsey [Kinsey, Alfred C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 025333411X
Publisher: IndianaUP

Social Attitudes . There is a surprising paucity of any open and frank discussion of extra-marital coitus in the serious literature.31 Public opinion in regard to such coitus represents a mixture of professed disapproval, and spite and malice in which a considerable undercurrent of envy and suppressed desire may become apparent. As we have seen, this envy is more often apparent in the male. The female is more often tolerant of other persons having extra-marital coitus unless it concerns her own spouse. Then her disapproval may represent envy of the female who has distracted her husband’s attention, or a general moral disapproval of all such non-marital activity. More often it reflects some fear that the extra-marital relationships will interfere with her own marriage.

As with other types of sexual activity, the most serious objections to extra-marital coitus come from females and males who have never had such experience. Those who have had experience are more often inclined to indicate that they intend to have more. In the sample, when the extra-marital experience had been satisfactory and had not gotten the females into personal or social difficulties, most of the experienced individuals were inclined to continue their activities.

Thus, among the married females in the sample who had not had extra-marital experience, some 83 per cent indicated that they did not intend to have it, but in a sample of those who had had extra-marital experience, only 44 per cent indicated that they did not intend to renew their experience (Table 124, Figure 81). Some 5 per cent of those who had not had extra-marital coitus indicated that they wanted to have it, while another 12 per cent indicated that they might at some time consider the possibility of having it. This gave a total of 17 per cent who were not seriously opposed to the idea. In contrast, however, among those who had already had extra-marital coital experience, some 56 per cent indicated that they intended to have more or would consider the possibility of having more.32

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