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The Scalability of Sexual Experiences

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Sixty-eight male graduate students completed a questionnaire relating to their past sexual history in the course of an extensive survey and experimental study on sexual attitudes and preferences. The items of the questionnaire were subjected to a scalogram analysis and found to conform to a Guttman scale, suggesting that the sexual experiences of this group follow a fairly fixed cumulative pattern. This was true for the subgroups of single Ss and married Ss, and for the group as a whole.

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  1. John Paul Brady

    Present address: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Piersol Building, Philadelphia, Penna, USA

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University Medical Center, USA

    John Paul Brady & Eugene E. Levitt

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The authors are indebted to the Staff of the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana for assistance with various aspects of this study.

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Brady, J.P., Levitt, E.E. The Scalability of Sexual Experiences. Psychol Rec 15, 275–279 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393595

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