Editing Kinsey Reports (section)

==Context and significance==
Only 5,000 copies of ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'' were initially printed in 1948, and its success surprised the publisher. The popular late-1948 [[Cole Porter]] song "[[Too Darn Hot]]" makes reference to it.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdp5ce2WA0k |title=Too Darn Hot |date=2014-10-05 |last=Broadway Cast Recording - Topic |access-date=2025-02-04 |via=YouTube}}</ref> Prior to the release of the second report in 1953, the first book had sold over 265,000 copies in the United States.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=How Can Kinsey Miss?|magazine=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=August 26, 1953|page=61|url=https://archive.org/details/variety191-1953-08/page/n254/mode/1up?view=theater|access-date=March 13, 2024|via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref> Together, the Kinsey Reports sold three-quarters of a million copies and were translated into thirteen languages, and 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 associated with a change in the [[Sexual revolution|public perception of sexuality]], in conjunction with [[Masters and Johnson]]'s texts about their 1960s investigations into the [[physiology]] of sex, breaking taboos and misapprehensions.<ref name="Irvine" /><ref name="Zastrow" />