Medicine: Can You Measure Love?

Though a few psychiatrists have applauded the sex studies of Biologist Alfred C. Kinsey, most have opposed his work, largely on the ground that he was muscling in on their territory without sufficient qualifications. One who formerly backed Kinsey for his research on males has now turned against him: Topeka's famed Dr. Karl A. Menninger. Last week, before 160 mind-doctors and their guests at an American Psychiatric Association dinner in St. Louis, the two battled it out.

Said Psychoanalyst Menninger: "This book [Sexual Behavior in the Human Female — TIME, Aug. 24] does not represent American women, much less the human female....

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