What Is Normal?

March, 1965

What is Normal?The Young Man sat still for a moment, drawing deeply on a cigarette and exhaling with slow deliberation. Looking me quickly in the eye, he asked: "Am I normal?"It was the anticipated response to my question, and once more I had to parry it:"What do you mean by normal?"We were discussing his sex life, concluding an interview for the Institute for Sex Research, and I had posed my final query: What question about sex may I answer for you? This had been my very las...