Kinsey’s life has inspired many media projects, including Theatre of NOTE’s 2005 off-Broadway play, Fucking Wasps the 2004 biopic Kinsey starring Liam Neeson PBS’s documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute a novel and even a radio play. Kinsey died on August 25th, 1956, owing to a heart condition and a bad bout of pneumonia. Clara knew about Kinsey's bisexuality and supported his numerous relationships with men. They both had many partners throughout their marriage. Kinsey was openly bi and had an open marriage with his wife, Clara. He was on the cover of Time Magazine, appeared on television programs, and was referenced in the Cole Porter song "Too Darn Hot". The controversy also made Kinsey an incredibly well-known public figure. Due to this, Kinsey and his team encountered many obstacles as they pursued their work, including a loss of funding, a lawsuit by the US Customs, and even anti-communist investigations. Kinsey’s research was the subject of much controversy during a time when human sexuality was a taboo subject. This book also gave us the “Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale” - more commonly referred to as the “ Kinsey scale” - as a way to conceptualize sexuality as a spectrum. On April 8, 1947, Kinsey and the research staff incorporated as the Institute for Sex Research (ISR).Ī year later, Kinsey published his first book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), an amalgamation of thousands of interviews with men discussing their sexual histories. Kinsey began to research human sexuality and collect sexual histories. He soon realized that there was a severe lack of data about human sex and sexuality, especially when compared to how much his students knew about animal mating. In 1938, he began teaching "Marriage and Family", a course for senior and married IU students. For the next 20 years, Kinsey studied gall wasps, specializing in taxonomy and individual variation. Kinsey arrived at Indiana University in 1920 - a year after earning his Ph.D. Though his research is sometimes criticized regarding. His work, culminating in the enormously influential Kinsey Reports and the Kinsey scale, transformed public perceptions about sex and sexuality, and paved the way for future generations of sex researchers.ĭr. His Kinsey Reports starting with the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female became bestsellers, turning Kinsey into an instant celebrity while creating a firestorm of controversy that continues to this day. Some hail him as a hero for revealing the truth about sexual behavior, but critics consider his report responsible for a "sexual revolution" that undermined the moral values of society.Alfred Charles Kinsey was a biologist, professor, and sexologist best known for his research on human sexuality. Alfred Kinsey died in 1956, but the controversy surrounding his research continues. By the time his second book was published, however, he had come under fire from religious and political groups. Known popularly as The Kinsey Report, his first book met with mostly positive responses and became a best-seller, and Kinsey used the profits to finance the Kinsey Institute of Sex Research at Indiana University in 1947.
Kinsey and his research team interviewed thousands of men and women, then published their findings in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). During the 1920s and '30s he became an expert on gall wasps and published high school biology texts, but in 1938 he began researching human sexuality. Educated at Bowdoin College and Harvard University, Alfred Kinsey joined the staff of Indiana University in 1920. Alfred Charles Kinsey was a zoologist at Indiana University who gained fame for his pioneering research on human sexual behavior.
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