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ANIMAL and human sex behaviour are the subjects of five papers published in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (47, Art. 5, 603-664 ; May 1947). These papers were given at a conference on physiological and psychological factors in sex behaviour held by the Sections of Biology and Psychology of the Academy in March 1946. Prof. S. B. Wortis, in his introduction, says that the conference revealed new material and indicated correlations which emphasize the need to change our attitudes to human sexual behaviour, and he hopes that this material may help to modify the law relating to these matters. He was speaking to Americans, but progressive opinion in Britain has more than once expressed a similar point of view. American and British cultures are not so different that they cannot, in matters like this, be regarded as one. Many of the opinions expressed at this conference will therefore interest British readers of them. There are two papers on animal sex behaviour by W. C. Young, who discusses animal endocrines, and W. E. Gait, whose subject is primate sex behaviour. A. C. Kinsey spoke briefly upon sex behaviour in the human animal, Morris Herman gave a paper on aberrant sex behaviour, and Gregory Bateson gave one on sex and culture.
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Animal and Human Sex Behaviour. Nature 161, 124 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161124a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161124a0