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Let us begin by noting what this book is not, and later go on to discuss what it is. First, it is not a study of the sexual behavior of all human females; rather it is a study of the behavior of a sample of 5940 cases of white females (all females are not white). Fifty-six percent have some college background and 19% have gone beyond college (only 10% of the population goes to college, so this sampling is not representative of the “average” female in our people). Only 727 are Catholics; and only 108 are devout Jewish females. Only 38% are from working class parents, while 47% come from upper white-collar background, together with 27% from lower white-collar parentage; this is not the distribution in the general population. Fifty-nine percent of the women were in the upper white-collar or professional groups as far as their occupations went. Ninety percent were urban; this is not the distribution of our population figures. Finally, 69% were from the Eastern states containing 47% of the population of the United States. This is a brief picture of the sample—white collar and professional, urban, and mainly Protestant.
Secondly, Kinsey is a biologist and this is a behavioristic study, and properly so. It is