The controversy engendered by this first book caused Kinsey's second book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, to be eagerly anticipated by his critics, his defenders, the media, and the public. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. Retrieved February 2, 2007. [19] Kinsey wrote about pre-adolescent orgasms using data in tables 30 to 34 of the male volume, which report observations of orgasms in over three-hundred children aged from two months up to fifteen years. In 1935, Kinsey delivered a lecture to a faculty discussion group at Indiana University, his first public discussion of the topic, wherein he attacked the "widespread ignorance of sexual structure and physiology" and promoted his view that "delayed marriage" (that is, delayed sexual experience) was psychologically harmful. Kinsey! [27][28] Years later, the Kinsey Institute said that the data on children in tables 31–34 came from one man's journal (started in 1917) and that the events concerned predated the Kinsey Reports. Its publication in 1953 was met with an equal if not greater storm than the publication of the book on men. Kinsey and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928. Both volumes featured the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale—more commonly known as " The Kinsey Scale ." Alfred Kinsey and the pedophile enda by Dana S. Scanlon Kinsey, Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination ofaPeople by Dr. Judith A. Reisman and Edward W. Eichel Huntington House Publishers. Alfred Kinsey: Research & Books Instructor: Gary Gilles Show bio Gary has a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology and has been teaching and developing courses in higher education since 1988. Alfred Kinsey ultimately collected around 5,300 “sex histories” from his subjects which he published in the first of his two-book series known as the Kinsey Reports, the explosive 1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. In 1919, Kinsey was awarded a Sc.D. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. [17][18] Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research;[19] Biographer Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy explains that this was done to ensure the films' secrecy, which would have caused a scandal had it become public knowledge. Its publication in 1953 was met with an equal if not greater storm than the publication of the book on men. Kinsey compiled the findings from these interviews into two books that were the opening salvos of the sexual revolution that soon swept the United States: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953). Other such publications refer to him as an entomologist, a sexologist, and many other esteemed professions. [57], In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people. Rickets led to a curvature of the spine, which resulted in a slight stoop that prevented Kinsey from being drafted in 1917 for World War I. Kinsey's parents were devout Christians. At the end of two years at Stevens, Kinsey gathered the courage to confront his father about his interest in biology and his intent to continue studying at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in biology.[5]. Kinsey was not successful there, and decided engineering was not a field he was good at. Saunders), followed in 1953. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. To find proof of evolution, students had only to look at things they used daily...Kinsey ridiculed the man who denounced evolution but owned a new breed of dog or smoked a cigar made from a recently improved variety of tobacco, saying, "When he says he doesn't believe in evolution, I wonder what he means. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. He worked and camped with the local YMCA throughout his early years, and enjoyed these activities to such an extent that he intended to work for the YMCA after completing his education. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. In 1949 Mae West, reminiscing on the days when the word "sex" was rarely uttered, said of Kinsey, "That guy merely makes it easy for me. Alfred Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin Limited preview - 1998 Sexual Behavior in the Human Female Kinsey institute for research in sex, gender and reproduction (Bloomington, Ind). The Sexual Revolution: hailed by Liberal Atheists as the greatest advance for mankind since the wheel—or at least since penicillin. What is less well known is his use of known pedophiles in his experiments with children. The controversy engendered by this first book caused Kinsey's second book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, to be eagerly anticipated by his critics, his defenders, the media, and the public. [14][15] For example, Kinsey's work disputed the notions that women generally are not sexual and that female orgasms experienced vaginally are superior to clitoral orgasms. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. Saunders. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. Kinsey did his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, zealously collecting samples of the species. [14][15] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. Alfred Charles Kinsey Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1894, Kinsey was the oldest of three children. To add more books, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Volume 1, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Volume 1, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Volume 2, Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Volume 2, The New Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America: A Field Guide to Edible (and Poisonous) Flowering Plants, Ferns, Mushrooms and Lichens, Studies of Some New and Described Cynipidae (Hymenoptera, Vol 53). [6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology. During this time, he developed a scale measuring sexual orientation, now known as the Kinsey scale, which ranges from 0 to 6, where 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual; a rating of X for "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" was later added. The Kinsey Reports, which led to a storm of controversy, are regarded by many as a precursor to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Their first son, Donald, born in 1922, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. According to this view, Kinsey freed us from ignorance about sexuality. [38][39][40] He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other. [20][21] James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, among others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs. Kinsey is widely regarded as the first major figure in American sexology; his research is cited as having paved the way for a deeper exploration into sexuality among sexologists and the general public, as well as liberating female sexuality. Alfred Kinsey ultimately collected around 5,300 “sex histories” from his subjects which he published in the first of his two-book series known as the Kinsey Reports, the explosive 1948 Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it. This edit will also create new pages on Comic Vine for: Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. La .. 1990 237 pages. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female book. The books became known in the media and popular culture as the 'Kinsey Reports'. Language: English. [10][11] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany. 12", "The Jack Benny Show from September 15, 1953", "TIME Magazine Cover: Dr. Alfred C. 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Book Source: Digital Library of India Item 2015.187552. dc.contributor.author: Alfred C Kinsey dc.date.accessioned: 2015-07-07T21:08:44Z dc.date.available: 2015-07-07T21:08:44Z dc.date.digitalpublicationdate: 0000-00-00 dc.date.citation: 1949 dc.identifier.barcode: 5990010110581 dc.identifier.origpath: /rawdataupload/upload/0110/583 dc.identifier.copyno: 1 Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]. Kinsey had sex with other men, including his student Clyde Martin. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. The original draft of the book was written in 1919–1920, while Kinsey was still a doctoral student at the Bussey Institute, and Fernald was working at the Arnold Arboretum.[13]. '"[50] Cole Porter's song "Too Darn Hot", from the Tony Award–winning Broadway musical Kiss Me, Kate, devoted its bridge to an analysis of the Kinsey report and the "average man's favorite sport." Any sort of scientific approach to the problems of sex is difficult because the field is so deeply overlaid with such things as moral precept, taboo, individual and group training, and long-established behavior patterns. [23] University of Chicago sociology professor Edward Laumann also argued that Kinsey's work was focused on the biology of sex and lacked psychological and clinical information and analysis. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Kinsey was later to claim that his high school biology teacher, Natalie Roeth, was the most important influence on his decision to become a scientist. [26] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. While attending Columbia High School, he devoted his energy to academic work and playing the piano. Refresh and try again. [8] Alfred Seguine Kinsey did not attend his son's graduation ceremony from Bowdoin, possibly as another sign of disapproval of his son's choice of career and studies. He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively … Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. These publications got world-wide recognition as Kinsey’s Reports . He traveled widely and took 26 detailed measurements of hundreds of thousands of gall wasps; his methodology was itself an important contribution to entomology as a science. Kinsey, an atheist,[36][better source needed] married Clara McMillen in 1921. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. The Kinsey Reports are two scholarly books on human sexual behavior, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), written by Alfred Kinsey, Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and (for Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Paul Gebhard and published by W.B. [17][18] While he has been criticized for omitting African-Americans from his research,[31] his report on the human male includes numerous references to African-American participants. In 1920 he published several papers under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, introducing the gall wasp to the scientific community and describing its phylogeny. Brand new Book. It was produced off-Broadway in 2005. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects". His mother received little formal education; his father was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology. "[53] On September 15, 1953, Kinsey appeared as a character on the Jack Benny TV program. In 1948, Kinsey published his first book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. "[55] The lead article concluded: "'Kinsey ... has done for sex what Columbus did for geography,' declared a pair of enthusiasts ... forgetting that Columbus did not know where he was when he got there.... Kinsey's work contains much that is valuable, but it must not be mistaken for the last word. "[12], Kinsey co-authored Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, published in 1943, with Merritt Lyndon Fernald. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. Alfred Kinsey is the man to whom we owe much for these changing mores. Jones, James H. (1997). There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[42]. "[51], The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. Kinsey approached his father with plans to study botany at college. ", , Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life WW Norton New York, New York pages 441–445. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Error rating book. [49] The first pop culture references to Kinsey appeared not long after the book's publication; Martha Raye [sold] a half-million copies of 'Ooh, Dr. The couple had four children. [28][29], Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married",[30] and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, which may have distorted his studies. Alfred Kinsey was a pervert and a sex criminal Alfred Kinsey was a pervert and a sex criminal News By Jonathon Van Maren ‘Unreasonable and unfair’: Quebec cardinal slams authorities for… "The Other Kinsey Report. [2] Also at a young age, he showed great interest in nature and camping. [33] After Gebhard recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures. The famed Kinsey Report! "Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex." Before Kinsey, most of the people who conducted sex research were physicians or psychologists who used their patients as research participants, says historian Donna J. Drucker, PhD, author of the 2014 book "The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge." The hidden life of Alfred C. Kinsey, the principal architect of the sexual revolution. In the fall of 1914, Kinsey entered Bowdoin College, where he studied entomology under Manton Copeland, and was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity, in whose house he lived for much of his time at college. Kinsey obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to further study human sexual behavior. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Kinsey had been studying the variations in mating practices among gall wasps. Kinsey is widely regarded as the first major figure in American sexology; his research is cited as having paved the way for a deeper exploration into sexuality among sexologists and the general public, as well as liberating female sexuality. Whatever may have been the reaction to his findings—and to the unscrupulous use of some of them—the fact remains that he was first, last, and always a scientist. His health records indicate that Kinsey received suboptimal exposure to sunlight (often the cause of rickets, before milk and other foods were fortified with vitamin D) and lived in unsanitary conditions for at least part of his childhood. When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. When read, this scientific study must be taken into context and taken with the Zeitgeist of its times in mind, that being the 1940s. Mr. Alfred Charles Kinsey (/ˈkɪnzi/; June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University,[1] previously known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. , Institute for Sex Research , Alfred Charles Kinsey , Wardell B. Pomeroy , Clyde E. Martin Snippet view - 1953 [25] Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. [44][45], Kinsey was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally. [58], In June 2019, Kinsey was one of the inaugural fifty American “pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes” inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City’s Stonewall Inn. Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, "New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, "Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics", "The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species", "American Experience | Kinsey | Timeline", "American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events", "Book Review "Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography, "Kinsey Establishes the Institute for Sex Research", "Kinsey Institute statement denies child abuse in study", "Conservative group attacks Kinsey data on children", "Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft – head of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction", "Kinsey Institute director denies allegations by Reisman", "NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: PAUL GEBHARD Colleague of Alfred Kinsey 1946–1956 Former Director of the Kinsey Institute", "Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science", "A Walk Through the Rose Hill Cemetery: Historic Tour Guide No. His meticulous methods of data collection, from comprehensive entomological assemblies to personal sex history interviews, raised the bar for empirical evidence to an entirely new level. Kinsey's ability to spend immense amounts of time deeply focused on study was a trait that would serve him well in college and during his professional career. The chapter called "Further Evidence of Change" was especially blunt...Kinsey defined evolution as "the scientific word for change", and while he acknowledged that there are some people who "think they don't believe in evolution", he tried to show his students the folly of such reasoning. [23], Kinsey collected sexual material from around the world, which brought him to the attention of U.S. Customs when they seized some pornographic films in 1956; he died before this matter was resolved legally. |9780822963035|Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge| Alfred C. Kinsey’s revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. Biologists and the Promise of American Life : From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey Pauly, Philip J. The complementary work, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (W.B. Kinsey may have over-represented homosexuals, but Bullough considers that this may have been because homosexual behavior was stigmatized and needed to be better understood. Welcome back. His works earned him such fame and popularity that reputable magazines like Times, Life, Look carried out articles on him. [2] He was the eldest of three children. [59][60] The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history,[61] and the wall’s unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. An Introduction to Biology was unlike any other textbook on the market... Kinsey's textbook was noteworthy for the strong position it took on evolution...In his textbook Kinsey laid out the basic facts of evolution in a manner-of-fact matter, as though he were discussing the life cycle of the fruit fly. His parents strongly supported this (and joined as well) because the Boy Scouts was an organization that was based on the principles of Christianity. Kinsey continued his graduate studies at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States.
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