Alfred Kinsey
American sexologist (1894-1956) · United States · Doctors · Died at 62
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Something wrong?Alfred Charles Kinsey 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.
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Oak-apple galls induced by Atrusca brevipennata, one of the wasp species first described by Kinsey
Kinsey (center) with staff of the Institute for Sexual Research, later renamed the Kinsey Institute
Alfred Kinsey on the cover of Time in 1953
Kinsey's home in Bloomington
Clara McMillen in the Indiana University yearbook, 1921Awards
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Alfred Charles Kinsey 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. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as for the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and has continued to provoke controversy decades after his death. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States and United Kingdom as well as internationally.
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