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The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male[ 1] (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female[ 2] (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.
Alfred Charles Kinsey ( / ˈkɪnzi /; 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, [ 1] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing ...
The Kinsey scale, also called the Heterosexual–Homosexual Rating Scale, [ 1] is used in research to describe a person's sexual orientation based on one's experience or response at a given time. The scale typically ranges from 0, meaning exclusively heterosexual, to a 6, meaning exclusively homosexual. In both the male and female volumes of ...
The Kinsey Report Pulls Back the Hood. On the heels of his 1948 book, Sexual Behavior In The Human Male, American biologist Alfred Kinsey publishes a companion edition, titled Sexual Behavior In The Human Female.
The Kinsey Reports and the developed scale had a big impact on the perception of human sexuality in general and homosexuality and bisexuality in particular. Before Kinsey, sexual orientation was conceptualized as only three categories: homosexual, heterosexual and bisexual, and homosexual contacts were regarded as rather rare.
Kinsey is a 2004 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon. [ 3] It describes the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey (played by Liam Neeson ), a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (the first of the Kinsey Reports) was one of the first recorded works that tried to ...
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (often shortened to The Kinsey Institute) is a research institute at Indiana University. Established in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1947 as a nonprofit, the institute merged with Indiana University in 2016, "abolishing the 1947 independent incorporation absolutely and completely."
Four years prior to the publication of the DSM-I, the first Kinsey Report was published by Alfred Kinsey and his fellow researchers, which found that "only 50 percent of the adult population is exclusively heterosexual throughout its adult life," [5] based on a study of 5,300 men, but the psychiatry field was hostile to the Kinsey Report and ...