Craved Kinsey Report Bruised at Wellesley

Ballyhood and banned, the Kinsey report is nevertheless required reading at Wellesley. Now on reserve in the inner sanctums of the college library, its 804 pages are receiving a thorough thumbing.

But regardless of whether they're sex-starved or sincerely interested, all rosy-checked Wellesleyites who want to buy the book must produce official permission when they shove their $6.50 across the counter of the Hathaway House Bookshop in Wellesley.

Anyone in the town is free to buy the book, the booksellers explained, but as for the Wellesley students, "Well, you know, a thing like this . . . not for girls that age."