Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinseywas an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist 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 Maleand Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth23 June 1894
CityHoboken, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Alfred Kinsey quotes about
We are recorders and reporters of the facts - not judges of the behavior we describe.
There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.