Watson chafed at science’s reluctance to study human sexuality as it studies human nutrition or planets or porcupine sexuality. “It is admittedly the most important subject in life,” he wrote. “It is admittedly the thing that causes the most shipwrecks in the happiness of men and women. And yet our scientific information is so meager…. [We should have our questions] answered not by our mothers and grandmothers, not by priests and clergymen in the interest of middle-class mores, nor by general practitioners, not even by Freudians; we…want them answered by
