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Alfred Charles Kinsey (/ ˈ k ɪ n z i /; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
Kinsey devised a classification scheme to measure sexual orientation. It is commonly known as the Kinsey Scale; Reanalyses of Alfred Kinsey's Data. In the Final Report and Background Papers of the National Institute of Mental Health's Task Force on Homosexuality (Gebhard 1972), Gebhard reanalyzed Kinsey's data to eliminate sample bias. His ...
Trained as a taxonomist in biology, Alfred Kinsey set out in the 1930s as a disinterested scientist to document the full variety of human sexuality in order to provide a more scientific basis for society's approach to sexuality.
The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B. Saunders.
Based on almost 6000 sexual histories, this book contained many revelations about such matters as women’s masturbatory practices, premarital sexuality, and orgasmic experiences. As before, Kinsey documented an enormous gap between social attitudes and actual practices.
- Theodore M. Brown, Elizabeth Fee
- 2003
Sep 15, 2022 · Alfred Kinsey launched a controversial sex studies program and analyzed his findings in the book Sexual Behavior in the Human Male .
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The university asked zoology professor Alfred C. Kinsey, ScD, to coordinate a class on sexuality, reproduction, contraception and similar topics. In preparing for the class, he discovered that the scientific literature on human sexual behavior was sorely lacking.
