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=== Criticism === [[Alfred Kinsey]] is widely regarded as the first and among the most influential figures in American [[sexology]].<ref name="Irvine">{{cite book|title=Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology|isbn =978-1592131518|publisher=[[Temple University Press]]|year=2005|pages=37β43|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|pages=227β228|access-date = 15 March 2014| isbn = 978-0495095101 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=tco4YjyZab4C&pg=PT248}}</ref> He believed that [[sexual liberation]], as opposed to sexual abstinence, was the key to both a strong marriage and a happy life. Kinsey believed that abstinence was a sexual dysfunction: "The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, [[celibacy]] and delayed marriage."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/filmmore/pt.html |title=American Experience | Kinsey | Transcript | PBS |website=[[PBS]] |access-date=11 September 2017 |archive-date=13 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113041707/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/filmmore/pt.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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