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First female sexologist
At the Oneida Community sex was a free-for-all but men practiced 'male continence'.
A number of the early female writers on sexual matters were mainly concerned with a specific
measure, e.g.
Margaret Sanger wrote on birth control. It can be argued that such a preoccupation, though
praiseworthy, is not
strictly sexological in nature. The first woman sexologist in the true sense was Katherine Davis
who performed
a detailed questionnaire study of 2,200 women in the New York area which was published in
1929 ("Factors in
the Sex Life of Twenty-two Hundred Women") The questionnaire was originally mailed to
20,000 women, only
a tenth choosing to reply. The survey was said to be confined to "normal" women of good
standing in the
community, most of whom were graduates. The ages of the women, many of them teachers,
ranged between 25
and 55. The treatment of the data has been represented by Kinsey as "simple but statistical".
(A much smaller
study, perhaps justifying the adjective sexological, was carried out by Anita Newcomb McGee
from 1888 to
1891; interviews were taken and data compiled with respect to the famous Oneida Community
in New York.)