Jones, James H. (1997). Kinsey, an atheist,[36][better source needed] married Clara McMillen in 1921. Lafayette. [57], In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk in Chicago, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life - James H. Jones - Google Books. [56], The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in Kinsey. [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. 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. [14][15] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. 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]. According to this view, Kinsey freed us from ignorance about sexuality. In 1919, Kinsey was awarded a Sc.D. Other such publications refer to him as an entomologist, a sexologist, and many other esteemed professions. 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 and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program. In this brilliant, groundbreaking biography, twenty years in the making, James H. Jones presents a moving and even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. 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. [16] He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948, followed in 1953 by Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, both of which reached the top of the bestseller lists and turned Kinsey into a celebrity. These publications got world-wide recognition as Kinsey’s Reports . The cause of his death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia. [4] Despite earlier disease having weakened his heart, Kinsey followed an intense sequence of difficult hikes and camping expeditions throughout his early life. Mr. Its publication in 1953 was met with an equal if not greater storm than the publication of the book on men. This study is most renowned for its shedding of light on homosexuality in the human male, of which it claims ~37% of human men have had one or more homosexual encounters in their entire lifetime. [46][47], The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. [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. In 1948, Kinsey published his first book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. [44][45], Kinsey was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana. Kinsey wrote a widely used high-school textbook, An Introduction to Biology, which was published in October 1926. Biography.com describes him as a journalist, biologist, anthropologist, scientist, academic, zoologist, and an educator. Sex focuses on the relationship between Kinsey, his wife, and their shared lover Wally Matthews (based on Clyde Martin). What is less well known is his use of known pedophiles in his experiments with children. [38][39][40] He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other. His father, who taught engineering at a local college, was a devout and domineering Methodist, and the young Alfred grew up in an environment that outlawed any talk or experience of sexuality. The Sexual Revolution: hailed by Liberal Atheists as the greatest advance for mankind since the wheel—or at least since penicillin. In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but hard-working student. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. 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. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. [41], Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana, at 1320 First Street. "[12], Kinsey co-authored Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, published in 1943, with Merritt Lyndon Fernald. Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. Saunders. 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. 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]. Language: English. [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. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects". The man and his research: 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. Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. 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). Welcome back. 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. [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. [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. [24] This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation. Kinsey's parents were poor for most of his childhood, often unable to afford proper medical care. 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. Error rating book. [43] The New York Times ran the following editorial on August 27, 1956: The untimely death of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey takes from the American scene an important and valuable, as well as controversial, figure. Kinsey approached his father with plans to study botany at college. 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. Most of Kinsey's social interactions were with other members of the church, often as a silent observer, while his parents discussed religion. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. Biologists and the Promise of American Life : From Meriwether Lewis to Alfred Kinsey Pauly, Philip J. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. $11.99 This book deserves to … 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. New York: Norton. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. [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. These publications later became known as the Kinsey Reports. 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. He joined the Boy Scouts when a troop was formed in his community. 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. Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences The Red Queen & The Grand Scheme By Judith A. Reisman, PhD Fourth Edition ebook available here Fourth Edition available in print as Stolen Honor Stolen Innocence Third Edition hardcover available from WorldNetDaily [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. paperbound. The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. “The Kinsey Reports are two 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 and others and published by Saunders. * Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. 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. degree by Harvard University. 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. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. [10][11] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany. Some criticized the studies, noting the unreliability of … Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it. [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. Retrieved February 2, 2007. "[48] A character called "Dr. Kinsey" appeared on the September 15, 1953 television episode of The Jack Benny Program as a bow-tied man interviewing a young woman on board a cruise ship that has left Hawaii. Alfred Kinsey, American zoologist and student of human sexual behavior. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. 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. 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." Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. 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 hidden life of Alfred C. Kinsey, the principal architect of the sexual revolution. "[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. "[53] On September 15, 1953, Kinsey appeared as a character on the Jack Benny TV program. Matt Sesow's paintings adorned the theater along with David Bickford playing piano live. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. , Institute for Sex Research , Alfred Charles Kinsey , Wardell B. Pomeroy , Clyde E. Martin Snippet view - 1953 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. 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. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. 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. Alfred Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female battled the long-held taboo against talking about sex that led to ignorance, secrecy and plain lies about intercourse, masturbation, sexual development and homosexuality. There is evidence to suggest that Kinsey’s scientific research into child sexuality was actually molestation. He based the book on more than 10,000 interviews—during which men and women of … [22], Some of the data published in the two Kinsey Reports books is controversial in the scientific and psychiatric communities, due to Kinsey's decision to interview volunteers who may not have been representative of the general population. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. 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. He got fame as celebrity when his two books on sexual behavior in human species got published 1948. Alfred Charles Kinsey Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1894, Kinsey was the oldest of three children. 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. In the long run, it is probable that the values of his contribution to contemporary thought will lie much less in what he found out than in the method he used and his way of applying it. Sex researcher Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, author of books on human sexual behavior, shown at a press conference on November 22, 1955. [32] Historian Vern Bullough writes that the data was later reinterpreted, excluding prisoners and data derived from an exclusively gay sample, and the results indicate that it does not appear to have skewed the data. When "Dr. Kinsey" identifies himself to Jack Benny, Benny steps away in embarrassment. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. Alfred Kinsey wrote about previously taboo subjects with the same dry scientific detachment he applied to his research on insect taxonomy, and so people who would ordinarily be wary of purchasing, much less publicly reading, a big book about sex, could simply tell others and themselves that this one, since it was scientific, was different. [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. Refresh and try again. [62], Newton, David E. Sexual Health: A Reference Handbook page 133, Del Tredici, Peter. Kinsey did his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, zealously collecting samples of the species. Published by Princeton University Press (2002) Both volumes featured the Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale—more commonly known as " The Kinsey Scale ." The books became known in the media and popular culture as the 'Kinsey Reports'. (Adam Riva) Alfred Kinsey has been described as a pioneer, a revolutionary, and a forward thinker. 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. |9780822963035|Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge| Alfred C. Kinsey’s revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. Kinsey's senior undergraduate thesis for psychology, a dissertation on the group dynamics of young boys, echoed this interest. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[42]. 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… Alfred Kinsey was a zoologist, most famous for his sex research in the 1940’s. Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally. Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953 issue of Time. [6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. 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. Under Wheeler, Kinsey worked almost completely autonomously, which suited both men quite well. It was there that Kinsey studied applied biology under William Morton Wheeler, a scientist who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Read 8 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. [3] Kinsey's father imposed strict rules on the household, including mandating Sunday as a day of prayer and little else. At age 10, Kinsey moved with his family to South Orange, New Jersey. He seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but earned respect for his academic ability. Kinsey was bisexual[37] and, as a young man, would punish himself for having homoerotic feelings. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints...We are both in the same business...Except I saw it first. 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. "The Other Kinsey Report. [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. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively … 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. 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. 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. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928. Kinsey's research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. [26] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. [33] After Gebhard recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures. The couple had four children. [52] The national news magazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research, career and new book,[53] the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle. When read, this scientific study must be taken into context and taken with the Zeitgeist of its times in mind, that being the 1940s. Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]. 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Little attention was paid to this part of Kinsey's research at the time, but where Kinsey had gained this information began to be questioned nearly 40 years later. For example, Kinsey's work disputed the notions that women generally are not sexual and that female orgasms experienced vaginally are superior to clitoralorgasms. 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. 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). Reprint. 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. Alfred Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (née Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey. 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. His best-known works were Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, both of which were based on thousands of personal interviews.