Editing Kinsey Reports (section)

==Context and significance==

The Kinsey Reports, which together sold three-quarters of a million copies and were translated into thirteen languages, may be considered as some of the most successful and influential scientific books of the 20th century.<ref name="Irvine">{{cite book|title=Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology|isbn =978-1-59213-151-8|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|year=2005|pages=37–43|access-date=3 January 2012|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uIJXT7ZCTCsC&pg=PA37|author=Janice M. Irvine}}</ref><ref name="Zastrow">{{cite book | author= Charles Zastrow|author-link = Charles Zastrow|title = Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People | publisher =[[Cengage Learning]]|year= 2007|page=228|access-date = March 15, 2014| isbn = 978-0-495-09510-1 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tco4YjyZab4C&pg=PT248}}</ref> They were also associated with a change in the public perception of [[Human sexuality|sexuality]].<ref name="Irvine"/><ref name="Zastrow"/> In the 1960s, following the introduction of the [[combined oral contraceptive pill|first oral contraceptive]], this change was to be expressed in the [[sexual revolution]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2009}} Additionally, in 1966 [[Masters and Johnson]] would publish the first of two texts cataloguing their investigations into the [[physiology]] of sex, breaking taboos and misapprehensions similar to those Kinsey had confronted more than a decade earlier in a closely related field.<ref name="Irvine"/><ref name="Zastrow"/>