People, Sep. 14, 1953

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Dr. Alfred Kinsey, an effective advance man for his Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, talked about his favorite subject to an overflow audience of women reporters, Author-Actress Cornelia Otis Skinner (a Kinsey interviewee) and a scattering of interested males at a Women's National Press Club luncheon in Washington. Ordinarily a solemn man, Kinsey proved to be an old tease when the girls got going on questions. What age group prefers sleeping in the nude? asked a woman from Woman's Wear Daily. Kinsey restated the question to his own liking —"Should the...

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