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Simone’s Notes:
American psychologist Henry Murray (1893–1988) developed a theory of personality that was organized in terms of motives, presses, and needs. According to Murray, these psychogenic needs function mostly on the unconscious level, but play a major role in our personality. Murray classified five affection needs:
Affiliation: Spending time with other people.
Nurturance: Taking care of another person.
Play: Having fun with others.
Rejection: Rejecting other people.
Succorance: Being helped or protected by others
Two obvious methods of experiment on affection have been tried:
The first, introduced by A. Mosso, the Italian psychologist, consists in recording the physical phenomena which are observed to accompany modifications of the affective consciousness. Thus it is found that the action of the heart is accelerated by pleasant, and retarded by unpleasant, stimuli; again, changes of weight and volume are found to accompany modifications of affection—and so on. Apart altogether from the facts that this investigation is still in its infancy and that the conditions of experiment are insufficiently understood, its ultimate success is rendered highly problematical by the essential fact that real scientific results can be achieved only by data recorded in connection with a perfectly normal subject; a conscious or interested subject introduces variable factors which are probably incalculable.
The second is Fechner's method; it consists of recording the changes in feeling-tone produced in a subject by bringing him in contact with a series of conditions, objects or stimuli graduated according to a scientific plan and presented singly in pairs or in groups. The result is a comparative table of likes and dislikes.
Mention should also be made of a third method which has hardly yet been tried, namely, that of endeavouring to isolate one of the three directions by the method of suggestion or even hypnotic trance observations.
After Valentine’s Day, Simone passed around a survey. It wasn’t just a normal survey. This was part of her research on sexology. (Surprise, surprise!) This is what her results were for the survey:
In the opposite or same sex what do you look at first?
Body: 82%
Eyes: 13%
All: 5%
So what do you think of sex before marriage?
Go for it!: 32%
Awful: 18%
Doesn’t matter to me: 50%
Do you want to settle down and find someone?
Hell no!!!: 50%
Yes: 48%
Undecided: 2%
Do you move fast in relationships?
Yes: 50%
No: 50%
What’s your sexual fantasy?
Bondage: 42%
Romantic: 30%
Vampirism: 18%
Other: 10%
Have you ever had sexual thoughts and/or feelings for someone of the opposite gender?
Yes: 50%
No: 50%
Have you ever had sexual thoughts and/or feelings for someone of your gender?
Yes: 50%
No: 50%
Do you ever find yourself looking at crude pictures or in crude areas (ex. genitals) of people of the opposite gender?
Yes: 50%
No: 50%
Do you engage in foreplay?
Yes: 52%
No: 18%
Sometimes: 30%
Which of the following is more important in a significant other?
Personality: 40%
Body: 15%
Similar beliefs: 45%
What do you do when you have some spare time for the one you love?
Make love/Make out: 73%
Talk: 14%
Nothing: 13%
Are you a virgin?
Yes: 16%
No: 84%
Do you ever watch porn?
Yes: 50%
No: 50%
What’s your dream idea of what sex is?
Procreation: 2%
Romance: 42%
Fun: 16%
Relief: 22%
Pure: 18%
Ever make out?
Hell yeah: 95%
No: 5%
How old were you when you lost your virginity?
Early teens: 17%
Late teens: 9.5%
College: 25%
Twenties: 19%
Thirties: 24%
Not yet: 5.5%
Have you wished you could have sex with someone?
Yes: 75%
No: 25%
Gotten horny off something you’re not supposed to?
Yes: 25%
No: 75%
Gotten a hand job/Gave a hand job?
Yes: 75%
No: 25%
Gotten a blowjob/given a blowjob?
Yes: 75%
No: 25%
Simone looked at her results neutrally. She had gotten used to vulgar answers. One gets used to sickening details for research after a while. But now, she needed more. “I’m really making my mark,” she thought. “I just need to put the information together and add more data to the notes.” The girl had definitely picked a randy city to do her sexology research. It was only going to get worse and her notes would be FLOODED!!!