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The latest study from the Kinsey Institute, to determine whether persons convicted of sex offenses differ from other individuals, and if so, how, is a truly herculean labor. In a volume of almost 900 pages, the authors record in exhaustive detail various facets (chiefly sexual) of the lives of 1,356 sex offenders, 477 control subjects, and 888 prison inmates convicted of nonsexual crimes. The study is limited to white men over 16. The amount of printed minutiae is monumental, numbing the eye and brain with the profusion of statistical data and tables. The following heading of one of the 167 tables exemplifies the excessive minuteness of inquiry: "Sexual Arousal From Pictures of Sexual Action by Sexual Arousal From Seeing or Thinking About Females for Control, Prison and Sex-Offender Groups with Female Objects." This table alone contains 208 separate percentage figures. The authors' subdivide sex offenders into 14 classes, including heterosexual
Samuel Friedman (Mon,) studied this question.