The Chapman report [antikvár]

TO MANY WOMEN and A FEW MENIT is possible that several of the many women with whom I have crossed paths in the years between puberty and the present will look into this book as they might into a mirror and, through some personal alchemy, see a reflection of themselves. To one and all, I assure them, 1 would have been totally incapable of capturing their beauty, habits, experiences, and elusive femininity on paper, even if I had wanted to do so. They possessed, all of them, too much complexity, as I possessed too little art, to serve as prototypes for the women in these pages.The women in the morality play that follows are pure fictioncreatures of the author's imaginationand if any female reader finds here the remotest resemblance to herself, or to any other human being, living or dead, I must firmly state that the resemblance is one of incredible coincidence.I must make the same disclaimer to male readers. If, somewhere in this happy land, there is a man who feels ill-used because he believes that he inhabits these pages, let him be relieved of the notion at once. Every man in this novel, from first page to last, is the result of make-believe.Among readers of both sexes, there may be a temptation to ascribe to Dr. Chapman and other sexologists in this novel some of the characteristics and methods of real-life sex historians like Drs. Alfred C. Kinsey, G. V. Hamilton, Robert L. Dickinson, Lewis M. Terman, and others. Those who wish to play out the fantasy, and enjoy the fun of it, may do so, but at their own risk, not mine. For their speculations will have no basis in fact. Since 1915, when the pursuit of sexual behavior by scientific investigators first began, dozens of notable menvii