The Cosmo Report
Female Sexual Behavior
Published on 30. September 2014
416 pages
978-1-4976-8098-2 (ISBN)
Description
The largest-ever sexual survey of American women
Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitanmagazine to a questionnaire about their sexual habits and preferences. But what makes the book more than a mere set of statistics-however revealing-is that many of the respondents augmented their replies with highly personal letters detailing the sexual practices they engaged in, the ones they most enjoyed, the ones they abhorred, and how they felt about the sexual revolution that transformed the lives of women in the 1970s and 1980s.
Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitanmagazine to a questionnaire about their sexual habits and preferences. But what makes the book more than a mere set of statistics-however revealing-is that many of the respondents augmented their replies with highly personal letters detailing the sexual practices they engaged in, the ones they most enjoyed, the ones they abhorred, and how they felt about the sexual revolution that transformed the lives of women in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Linda Wolfe is the author of five true-crime books:
The Professor and the Prostitute and Other True Tales of Murder and Madness,
Love Me to Death,
Double Life,
The Murder of Dr. Chapman,and
Wasted: Inside the Robert Chambers-Jennifer Levin Murder, an Edgar Award nominee and aNew York TimesNotable Book. She is also the author of
My Daughter, Myself, a memoir;
The Literary Gourmet, a classic cookbook; and
Private Practices, a novel.Wolfe's articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, among them
Vanity Fair, the
New York TimesMagazine, and
New Yorkmagazine, of which she was a contributing editor. She currently writes a column about books for the websitewww.FabOverFifty.com.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Cosmo Sex Survey
- Part I: Sexuality with Partners
- Chapter One: The First Time
- 1. Someday He'll Come Along, the Man I Love
- 2. How Old Were You?
- 3. Who Was the First Man?
- 4. Why Did You Decide to Have Sex for the First Time?
- 5. Was It Emotionally Satisfying?
- 6. Was It Sexually Satisfying?
- 7. Remembering the First Time
- 8. Waiting for the First Time
- 9. Effects of the First Time on Future Sexual Happiness
- Chapter Two: Turn-Ons
- 1. He's in the Mood for Sex (She Isn't)
- 2. Favorite Turn-Ons
- 3. Drinks and Drugs as Turn-Ons
- 4. Turn-Ons and Aggression
- Chapter Three: The Whens, Wheres and How-Oftens of Sex
- 1. The Uses and Abuses of Sexual Measuring Scales
- 2. Sexual Frequencies: How Often Do You Make Love?
- 3. Sexual Expectations: How Much Sex Is Enough?
- 4. When Is the Best Time for Sex?
- 5. Lunch-Hour Sex
- 6. Where Are the Best Places for Sex?
- Chapter Four: Sexual Practices
- 1. The Expansion of Sexual Repertoires
- 2. Foreplay
- 3. Oral Sex
- 4. Coital Sex: Attitudes
- 5. Coital Sex: Positions
- 6. Anal Sex
- 7. Homosexual Sex
- 8. Sadomasochistic Sex
- Chapter Five: Orgasm with a Partner
- 1. Doing What Doesn't Come Naturally
- 2. What Is an Orgasm, Anyway?
- 3. How Frequent Are Orgasms?
- 4. How Are Your Orgasms Usually Achieved?
- 5. The Factors That Affect Orgasm
- 6. Sex Without Orgasm
- 7. The Pressure to Have Orgasms
- 8. Faking Orgasms
- 9. Do Orgasms Vary in Intensity?
- 10. Multiple Orgasms
- 11. Learning to Have Orgasms
- Part II: Private Sexuality
- Chapter Six: Masturbation
- 1. The Changing View of Masturbation
- 2. How Widespread Is Masturbation?
- 3. How Old Were You When You First Masturbated?
- 4. Frequency of Masturbation
- 5. Techniques of Masturbation
- 6. Vibrators
- 7. Do You Continue to Masturbate When You Have a Steady Sex Partner?
- 8. Masturbation in View of a Sex Partner
- Chapter Seven: Sexual Fantasies and Dreams
- 1. The Mystery of Sexual Reverie
- 2. The Prevalence of Sexual Fantasies and Dreams
- 3. When Do You Have Sexual Fantasies?
- 4. Who Do You Fantasize About?
- 5. What Do You Fantasize About?
- Part III: The Human Arithmetic of Sex
- Chapter Eight: Lovers
- 1. The Pleasures and Perils of Change
- 2. How Many Lovers Have You Had?
- 3. What Is It Like to Feel Free to Have as Many Lovers as One Pleases?
- 4. Sexual Etiquette: How Quickly Do You Go to Bed?
- 5. Sexual Etiquette: Have You Ever Gone to Bed With One Lover, and Then Another, in the Same Twenty-Four-Hour Period?
- Chapter Nine: Multiple Partners
- 1. The Spread of Group Sex
- 2. The Frequency of Group Sex
- 3. Threesomes: One Woman/Two Men
- 4. Threesomes: Two Women/One Man
- 5. Sex Clubs, Orgies and Partner-Swapping Parties
- Chapter Ten: Infidelity
- 1. The Rise in Women's Infidelity
- 2. Marital Infidelity
- 3. The Mechanics of Marital Infidelity
- 4. Motivations and Expectations
- 5. Secret vs. Open Infidelity
- 6. Fidelity Among Couples Who Live Together
- 7. The Fidelity of Married Men
- Part IV: Sexual Abuse
- Chapter Eleven: Incest
- 1. Incest Fantasies and Realities
- 2. The Frequency of Incest
- 3. Father-Daughter Incest
- 4. Incest with Grandfathers, Stepfathers and Other Older Male Relatives
- 5. Brother-Sister Incest
- Chapter Twelve: Rape and Sexual Molestation
- 1. Change and Stasis
- 2. The Frequency of Rape and Sexual Molestation
- 3. The Relationship of the Attacker to the Woman
- 4. A Related Problem: Being Pressured into Sex
- Part V: The Sexual Revolution
- Chapter Thirteen: Evaluating the Sexual Revolution
- Chapter Fourteen: What Revolution?
- Appendix: Statistical Results of the Survey
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Copyright Page
