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One of the aims of the authors of this book is to determine which types of sexual behaviour are biologically and which socially determined. They purposely avoid introducing any moral or value judgements, their purpose being to establish what is, and not what ought to be.
The book thoroughly covers the field, as far as
information is available, of human sexual behaviour, and makes a comparative study of sexual behaviour patterns from a wide variety of human societies.
The authors have established the fact that many so-called perversions are natural, but the weakness of the book is that they have not examined why, though natural, they have come to be considered, for different societies, undesirable. Thus their treatment of the social factor in the determination of behaviour patterns is inadequate to safeguard the unwary reader from the temptation to conclude that what is established as not unnatural is therefore also not undesirable.
Nevertheless, the book contains an enormous amount of information which will be found interesting, useful, and thought-provoking to the serious reader. It can be recommended particularly to doctors, social workers, psychiatric workers, and probation officers, in fact to all whose work involves advice and guidance to people with marriage problems.