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Chapter 3: Sex Research

Issues in Sex Research

Sampling · Reliability of Self-Reports of Sexual Behavior · Evidence on the Reliability of Self-Reports · Interviews versus Questionnaires · Web-Based Surveys · Self-Reports versus Direct Observations · Extraneous Factors · Ethical Issues
FOCUS 3.1: Alfred C. Kinsey

The Major Sex Surveys

The Kinsey Report · The NHSLS · Sexual Behavior in France and Britain · A Sex Survey of African American and Hispanic Youth · Magazine Surveys
FOCUS 3.2: Politics versus Sex Research

Studies of Special Populations

Coxon: Gay Men's Sexual Behavior · Bell, Weinberg, and Hammersmith: Homosexuals and Heterosexuals
Media Content Analysis

Laboratory Studies Using Direct Observations of Sexual Behavior

Masters and Johnson: The Physiology of Sexual Response
Participant-Observer Studies

Humphreys: The Tearoom Trade · S/M Parties
Experimental Sex Research

Some Statistical Concepts

Average · Variability · Average versus Normal · Incidence versus Frequency · Correlation
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