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"Normal" and "Deviant" Sexual Behavior FREE

Judd Marmor, MD
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JAMA. 1971;217(2):165-170. doi:10.1001/jama.1971.03190020025005
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It is necessary to put aside our culturally acquired biases to achieve an objective perspective on what constitutes "normal" and "deviant" sexual behavior. Sexual practices and mores have varied widely in the course of human history and in different cultures. Our present concepts of normal and deviant behavior cannot be divorced from the value systems of contemporary society. Since value systems are always in the process of evolution and change, we must be prepared to face the possibility that some patterns of sexual behavior currently considered deviant may not always be so regarded.

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Taylor GR: Sex in History . New York, Vanguard Press, 1954;.
Hampson JL, Hampson Joan G:  The ontogenesis of sexual behavior in man , in Young WC (ed): Sex and Internal Secretions . Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961;, vol 2, ed 3.
Rado S: Psychoanalysis of Behavior . New York, Grune & Stratton, 1956;, vol 1.
Perloff WH:  Hormones and homosexuality , in Marmor J (ed): Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality . New York, Basic Books, 1965;, pp 44-69.
Money J:  Developmental differentiation of femininity and masculinity compared , in Farber SM. Wilson RHL (eds): Man and Civilization . New York, McGraw Hill Book Co, 1963;, pp 56-57.
Opler MK:  Anthropological and cross-cultural aspects of homosexuality , in Marmor J (ed): Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality . New York, Basic Books, 1965;, pp 108-123.
Freud S: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality . J Strachey (trans, 1905), New York, Basic Books, 1962;.
Olds J:  Self stimulation of the brain . Science 127:315-324, 1958;.
Ford CS, Beach FA: Patterns of Sexual Behavior . New York, Harper & Bros, 1952;.

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Taylor GR: Sex in History . New York, Vanguard Press, 1954;.
Hampson JL, Hampson Joan G:  The ontogenesis of sexual behavior in man , in Young WC (ed): Sex and Internal Secretions . Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961;, vol 2, ed 3.
Rado S: Psychoanalysis of Behavior . New York, Grune & Stratton, 1956;, vol 1.
Perloff WH:  Hormones and homosexuality , in Marmor J (ed): Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality . New York, Basic Books, 1965;, pp 44-69.
Money J:  Developmental differentiation of femininity and masculinity compared , in Farber SM. Wilson RHL (eds): Man and Civilization . New York, McGraw Hill Book Co, 1963;, pp 56-57.
Opler MK:  Anthropological and cross-cultural aspects of homosexuality , in Marmor J (ed): Sexual Inversion: The Multiple Roots of Homosexuality . New York, Basic Books, 1965;, pp 108-123.
Freud S: Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality . J Strachey (trans, 1905), New York, Basic Books, 1962;.
Olds J:  Self stimulation of the brain . Science 127:315-324, 1958;.
Ford CS, Beach FA: Patterns of Sexual Behavior . New York, Harper & Bros, 1952;.
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