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.
Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
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 range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.