his father was an engineer and a Sunday school preacher who spoke out passionately against the sins of masturbation. that there was a marvelous and very substantial diversity of sexual behavior in all segments of the population,” says Dean Hamer, author and molecular biologist at the National Institutes of Health, who has studied sexuality and genetics.īeing lauded as the father of sex research may seem an odd fate for a man with Kinsey’s start in life. 1 contribution was simply recognizing that sexual behavior is diverse and that people do very different things. Perhaps above all, researchers say Kinsey’s work and the later studies it inspired showed social scientists, public health workers, therapists and geneticists just how much there was and still remains for them to study. “Everybody’s sin is nobody’s sin,” Kinsey once said. Kinsey’s work did more than reassure people they were not alone: It highlighted a disconnect between certain laws of the land and actual sexual practice.
Over the course of years, 18,000 men and women across the country were asked to bare their souls on such matters as the frequencies of their climaxes, their experiences with premarital sex and even whether they had ever had sexual encounters with animals. Nobody since the controversial Kinsey has interviewed as many people, in such painstaking detail about so many aspects of their sexual lives and thoughts. “His influence was tremendous - it opened up the field,” says Vern Bullough, founder of the Center for Sex Research at Cal State Northridge, and author of “Science in the Bedroom: A History of Sex Research.” Church leaders, among others, denounced it. Publications such as Collier’s, Time and the New York Times ran cover articles about Kinsey’s book. Kinsey’s work set off “a true media explosion,” says writer-director Bill Condon, whose movie, “Kinsey,” on the pioneering sex researcher’s life, premiered in Los Angeles and New York last Friday. Kinsey - In last Monday’s Health section, a timeline that accompanied an article about Alfred Kinsey misspelled the first name of sex researcher Shere Hite as Sherry. Los Angeles Times Monday NovemHome Edition Health Part F Features Desk 0 inches 27 words Type of Material: Correction Sex research - In Monday’s Health section, a timeline with an article about Alfred Kinsey spelled the first name of sex researcher Shere Hite as Sherry. Told through men's experiences of sexuality and reproduction, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male: Anniversary Edition is a remarkable rumination on American society and science in the early 20th century.Los Angeles Times Saturday NovemHome Edition Main News Part A National Desk 0 inches 26 words Type of Material: Correction With scientific exactness, Kinsey describes the methodology, sampling, coding, interviewing, and statistical analyses, and then examines factors and sources of sexual outlet. With 5,300 research subjects, his undertaking was the largest sex research project of its time, transforming the field. Originally an entomologist, Kinsey applied his fieldwork taxonomy methods to human sexuality. Kinsey and his fellow researchers as they sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex. Allen, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male revisits the work of Alfred C. In this 75th anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword from Judith A. By unshackling sex research from flawed founding constraints, Kinsey revolutionized it. When first published in 1948, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim.
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