The question of what determines human sexual behavior has concerned, even preoccupied, us for a long time, during most of which we have lacked reliable scientific information. However, during this last decade, good data about human sexuality have begun to appear in scientific journals. Perhaps it is a harbinger of sorts that the Journal has published such a paper in this issue by Adams, Gold and Burt. In recent years discussion and theorizing about the nature and determinants of female sexuality have become a battleground or rallying point for many feminist writers. It is true, as they have most clearly . . .