The first major contribution that Alfred Kinsey made to sex research was the importance and identification of the prevalence of masturbation within our society. His three points about masturbation, being that , it is harmless, it is not a substitute for sexual intercourse and that it plays an important role in woman’s sexuality because it provides a more reliable source of orgasm , are all important observations that were not only revolutionary back then, but also are extremely important today. With our era of instant access of endless streaming pornography , many are choosing a digital sexual lifestyle rather than a real one and I think Kinsey was the first to notice that this can be a harmful alternative. Too much of anything is a bad, but especially with the youth, we are seeing that an overexposure to pornography at a young age is hurting them in the long run. Kinsey realized that while masturbation is harmless and even beneficial in ways, it can also have negative consequences if done in large amounts. Also the idea that a woman’s best way to explore her body through orgasms might be through masturbation, I imagine, would have been a very infuriating thought to many men at the time who lacked sexual education and the idea that they couldn’t please their wives to the full potential. …show more content…
In fact the textbook references two extremes of two men, one who had only ejaculated once in a thirty year period and the second who had ejaculated 30 times in one week. The realization by the public that not everyone had the same sexual desires was at the time a huge revelation to many who knew little to nothing of human