DR. KINSEY AND THE INSTITUTE FOR SEX RESEARCH

ISBN-10: 0-17-138014-2
Writer: Wardell B. Pomeroy
Τitle: Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research
Preface: Wardell B. Pomeroy
Language English
Edition: First Edition
Place of Publication: London
Publishers: Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd
Year of Publication: 1973
Format: 157x237mm
Pages: xii+479; index, 473
Illustrations: 32 black and white plates and pictures by, College News Bureau, Dellenback, Pan American World Airways, and Vories Fisher,
Binding: Boards in duotone dust jacket; back cover photo by The Press Association Ltd.
Weight: 815gr.
Original Price: GBP 4.20
 Entry No.: 2009070
Entry Date: 4th January 2010

BOOK DESCRIPTION

Alfred Charles Kinsey was one of the most widely known scientists of this century, a household name all over the world.
Many scientists believed that he ranked with Freud, and his two landmark books Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female raised one of the most violent storms since Darwin. Yet it was the supreme paradox of this complicated man that he remained virtually unknown to the public as a human being.

With the publication of this book, the whole story of Kinsey and his controversial career as a pioneer in sex research is available for the first time. Pomeroy follows Kinsey from his childhood in New Jersey to his appointment as biology professor almost accidentally turned marriage-guidance lecturer, and in the process learning how to put strangers at case – experience that later proved invaluable in getting timid volunteers to tell him intimate details of their case histories.

Here are described the interviewing techniques used for his two great books, and his tremendous battles with his critics over their response to their publication. Here are accounts of his valuable research on all levels of American society, from the bars in Time Square to conservative suburban enclaves, from prisoners to high-powered women executives. Here is described the foundation and work of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, its library and archives (the world’s  largest collection of erotica), its continuing research, and its impact on scientific thought.

That is a fascinating study not only of a great scientist’s career but also of one of this century’s most important scientific surveys and a major contribution to the tolerance that we knew today.

THE RIGHT TO READ

Writer: Paul Blanshard
Title: The Right to Read
Subtitle: The Battle Against Censorship
Foreword: Paul Blanchard
Edition: Presumably first
Language: English
Place of Publication: Boston
Publisher: The Beacon Press
Date of publication: 1955
Format: 145x215mm
Number of pages: 339; bibliography, 315; notes, 319; index, 329
Binding: Hardcover in duotone dust jacket
Entry No.: 2009021
Date of Entry: 23rd March 2009

BOOK DESCRIPTION

In this book Paul Blanshard, combining the roles of “a literary war correspondent and a very zealous moral philosopher,” reviews the whole field of the freedom and censorship of reading in the United States today. He asks two questions: How much literary freedom actually exists in the United States today? How much should exist?

Mr. Blanshard goes to the heart of the most important controversial issues of our time, examining the great moral problem-areas of American life in which the people's right to read is threatened by censorship laws or reactionary pressure groups. He covers the recent battles for freedom in America's public libraries, schools and newspapers from Los Angeles to Washington, and from Atlanta to Detroit. He discusses paperbacks, comic books, “girlie” magazines, tabloids, book-burning, pornography, textbooks, libel laws, fraudulent advertising, monopoly in the ownership of newspapers, Communist propaganda, the National Organization of Decent Literature and the American Legion.

Although Mr. Blanshard is a lawyer, this is not a legal treatise. However, it is packed with well-documented legal facts, the kind of facts which ordinary readers want to know about the laws and customs controlling our reading matter, especially in the twilight zones of obscenity, sedition, blasphemy, fraud and violence. It summarizes legal decisions in these matters in popular language, and discusses the social concepts that lie behind the laws. It asks those vital questions which concern the common man: How bad are the comic books, and should they be suppressed? Dare we put Communist books on our public library shelves? Who doctors our textbooks? Does anti-religious literature have a fair chance in America? Should the common man have the right to read the truth in wartime? Will the literature of internationalism destroy the loyalty of our school children? Where did our ideas of obscene literature come from?

This is not a blanket attack on censorship, but a reasoned analysis of the whole pattern of the control and the distribution of reading matter in our civilization. Through all the discussion runs an emphasis upon the need for preserving America as an open society in which there will be a reasonable balance between freedom and responsibility. Mr. Blanshard's deepest concern is with the right of the non-conformist minority in morals, politics, economics and religion to write and speak freely without penalty. “Censored ideas,” he says , “are ususally the most vital ideas of our life, and man's whole future may depend upon his right to examine them with free intelligence.”

Chapters include:
The Pattern of Control; Sex and Obscenity; The Puritan Vigilantes; Communism and Capitalism; Textbooks and the Schools; Patriotism and Treason;  Blasphemy, Faith and Race; Crime, Violence and the Comics;  Fraud, Libel and Secrecy; and the Ebb and Flow of Freedom

THE PORNO-PHOTOGRAPHIA

Editor/Compiler: Reinhard Seufert
Τitle: The Porno-Photographia
Edition: First Printing
Language: English
Place of Publication: Los Angeles
Publisher: Arygle Books
Year of Publication: 1968
Format: 215x276mm
Pages: Unpaged
Illustrations: 191 black and white plates, pictures and sketches
Binding: Paperback
Weight: 441gr
Entry No.: 2009051
Entry Date: 21st August 2009

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A fine compilation of erotic European photography from ancient times to 1967 including the first Daguerreotype of a full, frontal female nude (1860).

SEX AND SEX EDUCATION

ISBN-10: 0-8352-0544-4
Editors: Flora C. Seruya, Susan Losher & Albert Ellis
Τitle: Sex and Sex Education
Subtitle: A Bibliography
Foreword: Hendrik M. Ruitenbeek
Preface: Flora C. Seruya, Susan Losher and Albert Ellis
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York and London
Publisher: R. R. Bowker Company
Year of Publication: 1972
Format: 158x232mm
Pages: xiii+336; author index, 267; title index, 293; analytical subject index, 333
Binding: Hardcover without dust jacket
Weight: 636gr.
Entry No: 2009036
Date of Entry: 26th May 2009

BOOK DESCRIPTION

A comprehensive bibliography compiled and edited by three well-known sexologists on the subject, a welcome addition to our library. It is still a useful reference work.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION ON OBSCENITY AND PORNOGRAPHY

Τitle: The Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
Special Introduction: Clive Barnes
Language: English
Place of Publication: Toronto, New York, London
Publisher: Bantam Books
Year of Publication: 10/1970
Format: 104x177mm
Pages: xvii+700
Illustrations: Tables, notes and references
Binding: Paperbound
Weight: 321gr.
Entry No: 2009032
Date of Entry: 20th May 2009

BOOK DESCRIPTION

At last!!! The first authoritative study by government-appointed experts on the effects of pornography and obscenity on our American society. Objective answers to such questions as:

Ÿ What forms does pornography take, how available is it and who buys it?
Ÿ Does pornography contribute to juvenile delinquency?
Ÿ Are women aroused by stag films and erotic pictures?
Ÿ Are sex offenders different from “normal” people in their response to erotic stimuli?
Ÿ Does smut contribute to sexual aggression, homosexuality, lesbianism, exhibitionism and other deviant behavior?
Ÿ Does changing the law help curb the spread of pornography?

NAZI BANNED BOOKS

On May 10, 1933, students gathered 25,000 volumes by Jewish authors and burned them in the square in front of the University of Berlin. The bonfire was watched by 40,000 unenthusiastic people in a drizzling rain. Dr. Goebbels, the Minister of Public Enlightenment, delivered an address on the “symbolic significance of the gesture.” Similar demonstrations were held at many other German universities. In Munich 5,000 school children, who had formally Marxist literature publicly burned, were enjoined; “as you watch the fire burn these un-German books, let it also burn into your hearts love of the Fatherland.” Students entered the bookstores and took without remuneration the books they considered eligible for the bonfire, and had to be prevented from confiscating books from the University Library.

The following list consists of some of the most important authors whose works were sacrificed at the fires.
Sholom Asch, Lion Feuchtwanger, Maxim Gorki, Stefan Zweig, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Helen Keller, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Jakob Wasserman, Emil Ludwig, Arthur Schnitzler, Leon Trotsky, Nikolai Lenin, Josef Stalin, Gregory S. Zinoviev, Alfred Adler, Theodore Lessing, Franz Werfel, Hugo Munsterberg, Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann, Erich Maria Remarque, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Heine, Felix Mendelssohn, Maximilian Harden, Kurt Eisner, Henri Barbusse, Rosa Luxemburg, Upton Snclair, Judge Ben Lindsay, Arnold Zweig.

(Source: Anne Lyon Haight’s Banned Books, p. 121)

SEXUAL REVOLUTION

ISBN-13: 978-1-56025-525-3
Editor: Jeffrey Escoffier
Τitle: Sexual Revolution
Introduction: Jeffry Escoffier
Foreword: Erica Jong
Language: English
Place of Publication: New York
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Year of Publication: 2003
Format: 150x227mm
Pages: xli+693; Bibliography, 685; Permissions, 690
Illustrations: 14 black and white pictures by Fred W. McDarrah
Cover Design: David Riedy
Binding: Softcover in duotone printed wrapper
Weight: 1.012 gr.
Original Price: USD 17.95
Entry No: 2009031
Date of Entry: 20th May 2009

BOOK DESCRIPTION

The Sexual Revolution changed how we experience orgasms, female sexuality, pornography, homosexuality and marriage – and how we think about sex.

Collected here is the most provocative, entertaining, and essential writing documenting the immense, contradictory, and incomplete evolution of our attitudes about sexuality and gender. From Susan Sontag's “Pornographic Imagination” to Al Goldstein's notorious review of Deep Throat, writing from Sexual Revolution ranges from inspirational to outrageous. Sexual Revolution explores the cultural, political, and moral consequences of new ways of sexual thinking and behaving: Reclaiming the female orgasm and challenging the double standard; Celebrating open marriage and homosexuality; Defying taboo and censorship. From Anne Koedt's classic “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” to Norman Mailer's “The Homosexual Villain”; from Helen Gurley Brown to Lenny Bruce; from Wilhelm Reich and Freud to Foucault, here are the voices of those who registered and provoked popular consciousness and transformed how we think about sex. Today, Dr. Phil talks about oral sex among grade-schoolers on Oprah and pornstar Jenna Jameson gets a six-figure advance for her memoirs--something has changed – but Sexual Revolution reminds us that our sexuality remains a bitterly contested battleground.