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Largest pre-Kinsey study group
The only three studies, pre-Kinsey, which approached nationwide coverage in the U.S. were
limited to college
students. The largest pre-Kinsey study - which just preceded the first Kinsey report -was
"The Sex Life of
Unmarried Men" (1947) by L. B. Hohman and Bertram Schaffner, based on interviews
with 4,600 selective
service selectees at military induction centres in New York State and Baltimore. The study
was remarkable for
its finding that only three or four inductees per thousand reported homosexual experience.
However, the Kinsey
group later pointed out that "three-to-five-minute interviews .. . held in army induction centres
were not
conducive to winning admissions of socially taboo behaviour."