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LGBT people are our mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles and cousins. This is a fact and it isn’t going away. You have the opportunity to be an ally and a friend at home, school, church and work. A straight ally can merely be someone who is supportive and accepts the LGBT person, or a straight ally can be someone who personally advocates for equal rights and fair treatment.
Allies are some of the most effective and powerful voices of the LGBT movement. Not only do allies help people in the coming-out process, they also help others understand the importance of equality, fairness, acceptance and mutual respect.
What Can You Do?
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has a helpful list of ten things you can do to be a GLBT ally:
1.Be a listener.
2.Be open-minded.
3.Be willing to talk.
4.Be inclusive and invite LGBT friends to hang out with your friends and family.
5.Don’t assume that all your friends and co-workers are straight (or gay). Someone close to you could be looking for support in their coming-out process. Not making assumptions will give them the space they need.
6.Homophobic comments and jokes are harmful. Let your friends, family and co-workers know that you find them offensive.
7.Confront your own prejudices and homophobia, even if it is uncomfortable to do so.
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The trans* umbrella of diverse gender identities, excerpted from the Trans* 101 pamphlet.
Kinsey Confidential has collaborated with Skye Brown to provide some new resource guides for transgender or trans* people (people within the umbrella of gender non-conforming identities), and their friends and families. Skye is Program Coordinator for Trans* Lafayette, a support and anti-oppression group which serves trans* people and their allies across Indiana, as well as the LGBTQ Outreach Coordinator for the Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault.
The Kinsey Confidential resource pages now offers four excellent PDF pamphlets created by Skye. These booklets are an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to better understand trans* issues. These can be viewed online, or printed into booklets for distribution. Click the links in bold below to view the pamphlets.
Trans* 101 for Significant Others, Partners, Friends, Family, and Allies (SOFFA) of Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is interested in learning more about transgender
identities and experiences and being a better ally, friend, family member, or partner/ significant other to a trans* identified person. The information in this booklet is mostly in a Q&A format and is directed towards people who have little or no experience in trans* issues or with people who identify under the trans* umbrella. If you are not sure what “transgender” or “trans*” mean, this booklet is definitely for you! If you are a trans* identified person, this booklet may be a helpful tool for you to discuss your experiences and identity/identities with those close to you.
Trans* 201 for Significant Others, Partners, Friends, Family, and Allies (SOFFA) of Trans* People
The sequel to Trans* 101. This booklet was made for anyone who is interested in learning more about transgender identities and experiences and being a better ally, friend, family member, or partner/ significant other to a trans* identified person. The information in this booklet is mostly in a Q&A format and is directed towards people who have little or no experience in trans* issues or with people who identify under the trans* umbrella. If you are not sure what “transgender” or “trans*” mean, this booklet is definitely for you! If you are a trans* identified person, this booklet may be a helpful tool for you to discuss your experiences and identity/identities with those close to you.
Socially Transitioning for Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is questioning their gender and anyone who might
identify as transgender. The information in this booklet is an introduction to trans* identities, how to plan for coming out, how to come out to those close to you, how to navigate things after coming out, information about passing, and information about LGBTQ+ resources that exist in Indiana. Currently, information in this booklet is geared towards those with citizenship or naturalization status, but this booklet will soon be updated with information for those who are undocumented and have non-citizen legal statuses. There is also a booklet called “Legally Transitioning for Trans* People” and a booklet called “Physically Transitioning for Trans* People”.
Legally Transitioning for Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is questioning their gender, anyone who might identify as transgender, is non-binary in their body or identity, or identifies as a gender different than that assigned to them at birth. This booklet contains information regarding things to consider when coming out at work and other professional settings. There is information about changing your legal name and gender marker on your driver’s license, birth certificate, with the Social Security Administration, and on your passport. This booklet currently does not include information for changing documents if you have temporary status or undocumented status but will be updated with this information in the future. There is also a booklet called “Socially Transitioning for Trans* People” and a booklet called “Physically Transitioning for Trans* People.”
Bianca Jarvis
Bianca Jarvis Bianca Jarvis is an MPH student at Indiana University, and the executive editor at MsBehaved.com: "a sex-positive, body-positive, queer-friendly, gender-inclusive lifestyle site with a fierce femme sensibility." Her research interests include health disparities in gender-variant populations, body-diverse wellness, and sexual health and pleasure.
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Posted May 12, 2014
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Kinsey Confidential now offers four pamphlets for transgender people and their loved ones, created by Skye Brown.
gender umbrella
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The trans* umbrella of diverse gender identities, excerpted from the Trans* 101 pamphlet.
Kinsey Confidential has collaborated with Skye Brown to provide some new resource guides for transgender or trans* people (people within the umbrella of gender non-conforming identities), and their friends and families. Skye is Program Coordinator for Trans* Lafayette, a support and anti-oppression group which serves trans* people and their allies across Indiana, as well as the LGBTQ Outreach Coordinator for the Multicultural Efforts to end Sexual Assault.
The Kinsey Confidential resource pages now offers four excellent PDF pamphlets created by Skye. These booklets are an excellent resource for anyone who wishes to better understand trans* issues. These can be viewed online, or printed into booklets for distribution. Click the links in bold below to view the pamphlets.
Trans* 101 for Significant Others, Partners, Friends, Family, and Allies (SOFFA) of Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is interested in learning more about transgender
identities and experiences and being a better ally, friend, family member, or partner/ significant other to a trans* identified person. The information in this booklet is mostly in a Q&A format and is directed towards people who have little or no experience in trans* issues or with people who identify under the trans* umbrella. If you are not sure what “transgender” or “trans*” mean, this booklet is definitely for you! If you are a trans* identified person, this booklet may be a helpful tool for you to discuss your experiences and identity/identities with those close to you.
Trans* 201 for Significant Others, Partners, Friends, Family, and Allies (SOFFA) of Trans* People
The sequel to Trans* 101. This booklet was made for anyone who is interested in learning more about transgender identities and experiences and being a better ally, friend, family member, or partner/ significant other to a trans* identified person. The information in this booklet is mostly in a Q&A format and is directed towards people who have little or no experience in trans* issues or with people who identify under the trans* umbrella. If you are not sure what “transgender” or “trans*” mean, this booklet is definitely for you! If you are a trans* identified person, this booklet may be a helpful tool for you to discuss your experiences and identity/identities with those close to you.
Socially Transitioning for Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is questioning their gender and anyone who might
identify as transgender. The information in this booklet is an introduction to trans* identities, how to plan for coming out, how to come out to those close to you, how to navigate things after coming out, information about passing, and information about LGBTQ+ resources that exist in Indiana. Currently, information in this booklet is geared towards those with citizenship or naturalization status, but this booklet will soon be updated with information for those who are undocumented and have non-citizen legal statuses. There is also a booklet called “Legally Transitioning for Trans* People” and a booklet called “Physically Transitioning for Trans* People”.
Legally Transitioning for Trans* People
This booklet was made for anyone who is questioning their gender, anyone who might identify as transgender, is non-binary in their body or identity, or identifies as a gender different than that assigned to them at birth. This booklet contains information regarding things to consider when coming out at work and other professional settings. There is information about changing your legal name and gender marker on your driver’s license, birth certificate, with the Social Security Administration, and on your passport. This booklet currently does not include information for changing documents if you have temporary status or undocumented status but will be updated with this information in the future. There is also a booklet called “Socially Transitioning for Trans* People” and a booklet called “Physically Transitioning for Trans* People.”
Bianca Jarvis
Bianca Jarvis Bianca Jarvis is an MPH student at Indiana University, and the executive editor at MsBehaved.com: "a sex-positive, body-positive, queer-friendly, gender-inclusive lifestyle site with a fierce femme sensibility." Her research interests include health disparities in gender-variant populations, body-diverse wellness, and sexual health and pleasure.
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Alfred Kinsey
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Kinsey interviewing a woman.
Born
Alfred Charles Kinsey
June 23, 1894
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Died
August 25, 1956 (aged 62)
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Residence
United States
Nationality
American
Fields
Biology
Institutions
Indiana University
Alma mater
Bowdoin College
Harvard University
Known for
Sexology and human sexuality: Kinsey Reports, Kinsey scale, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
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] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. 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. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States, as well as internationally.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Personal life 2.1 Marriage and family
2.2 Personal habits
3 Sexology 3.1 The Kinsey Reports
3.2 Controversial aspects
4 In the media
5 Death
6 Legacy
7 Significant publications
8 See also
9 Notes
10 Bibliography
11 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (née Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey.[2] Kinsey was the eldest of three children. His mother received little formal education; his father was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Kinsey's parents were poor for most of his childhood, often unable to afford proper medical care. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. 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. 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. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Most of Kinsey's social interactions were with other members of the church, often as a silent observer, while his parents discussed religion.[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.[2] Also at a young age, he showed great interest in nature and camping. 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. Kinsey's senior undergraduate thesis for psychology, a dissertation on the group dynamics of young boys, echoed this interest. He joined the Boy Scouts when a troop was formed in his community. 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 worked his way up through the Scouting ranks to earn Eagle Scout in 1913, making him one of the earliest Eagle Scouts.[4] Despite earlier disease having weakened his heart, Kinsey followed an intense sequence of difficult hikes and camping expeditions throughout his early life.
In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but hard-working student. While attending Columbia High School, he devoted his energy to academic work and playing the piano. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. 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. He seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but earned respect for his academic ability. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. 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 approached his father with plans to study botany at college. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. Kinsey was not successful there, and decided engineering was not a field he was good at. He switched to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in biology.[5]
Regardless, he resumed his commitment to study. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. 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 Maine.
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.[6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology.[8] Alfred Seguine didn't attend his son's graduation ceremony from Bowdoin, possibly as another sign of disapproval of his son's choice of career and studies. He continued his graduate studies at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States. It was there that Kinsey studied applied biology under William Morton Wheeler, a scientist who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Under Wheeler, Kinsey worked almost completely autonomously, which suited both men quite well.
Kinsey chose to do his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, and began zealously collecting samples of the species. 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 was granted a Sc.D. degree in 1919 by Harvard University, and published several papers in 1920 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. Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]
Kinsey wrote a widely used high-school textbook, An Introduction to Biology, which was published in October 1926.[10] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany.[11][12][better source needed][13] Kinsey also co-wrote Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America with Merritt Lyndon Fernald, published in 1943. 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.[14]
Personal life[edit]
Marriage and family[edit]
Kinsey's home in Bloomington
Kinsey married Clara Bracken McMillen in 1921, whose ceremony, like his college graduation, was also avoided by Alfred Sr. They had four children. Their first-born, Donald, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. His daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and Bruce in 1928.
Kinsey was bisexual.[15] He and his wife agreed that both could sleep with other people as well as with each other. He himself slept with other men, including his student Clyde Martin.[16][17]
Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana at 1320 First Street. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[18]
Personal habits[edit]
As a young man, Kinsey began inserting objects into his urethra - initially drinking straws before moving on to pipe cleaners, pencils and finally a toothbrush - to punish himself for having homoerotic feelings and inserting toothbrushes continued throughout his adult life.[19][20][21] After becoming accustomed to the pain of urethral insertions, Kinsey circumcised himself without anaesthesia.[21] As an adult, he had a "furious hatred" of potatoes.[22]
Sexology[edit]
The Kinsey Reports[edit]
Main article: Kinsey Reports
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, and as having liberated female sexuality.[23][24] 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.[23][24] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. Kinsey had been studying the variations in mating practices among gall wasps. 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.
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 obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to further study human sexual behavior.[25] 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 later became known as the Kinsey Reports. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. 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.
Controversial aspects[edit]
Kinsey's research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. Some of the data published in the two Kinsey Reports books is controversial in the scientific and psychiatric communities, due to the low amount of research that was done and Kinsey's decision to interview and sexually experiment with volunteers who may not have been representative of the general population.[26] Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. He encouraged his staff to do likewise, and to engage in a wide range of sexual activity, to the extent that they felt comfortable; he argued that this would help his interviewers understand the participant's responses.[27][28] Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research;[29] 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.[30][31] James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, amongst others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs.[32]
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.[29]
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 between the ages of five months and fourteen years.[33] This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation.[34] Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. 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.[35] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects".[36][37] The Kinsey Institute wrote 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.[37][38]
Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married",[39] and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, which may have distorted his studies.[27][28] While he has been criticized for omitting African-Americans from his research,[40] his report on the human male includes numerous references to African American participants.[40] 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. 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.[27][28] Paul Gebhard, who was Kinsey’s colleague from 1946 to 1956 and who also succeeded Kinsey as Director of the Kinsey Institute following his death,[41] attempted to justify Kinsey's work in the 1970s by removing some of the suspect data he alleged showed a bias towards homosexuality.[41] After he recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures.[42]
In the media[edit]
The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it."[43] 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. Kinsey!'"[44] 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." 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. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints...We are both in the same business...Except I saw it first."[45]
The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage: Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953, issue of Time.[46] The national news magazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research, career and new book,[47] the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle.[48] In the magazine's cover portrait, "Flowers, birds, and a bee surround Kinsey; the mirror-of-Venus female symbol decorates his bow tie."[49] The lead article concludes with the following observation: "'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."[47] That same year, Kinsey appeared as a character in an episode of the Jack Benny TV program (September 15, 1953), in which he and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program.[50]
Death[edit]
Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. The cause of death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia.[51] 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. 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. 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. 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. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired.[52][53]
Legacy[edit]
After the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, 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. When "Dr. Kinsey" identifies himself to Jack Benny, Benny steps away in embarrassment.[54]
The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in Kinsey. In 2003 Theatre of NOTE produced the Steve Morgan Haskell play titled Fucking Wasps which followed Kinsey's life from childhood until death. Matt Sesow's paintings adorned the theatre along with David Bickford playing piano live. Written and directed by Steve Morgan Haskell, Fucking Wasps received many accolades, including a Playwriting of the Year nomination from Backstage West. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. Sex focuses on the relationship between Kinsey, his wife, and their shared lover Wally Matthews (based on Clyde Martin). The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. It was produced off-Broadway in 2005. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. Mr. Sex, a BBC radio play by Steve Coombes concerning Kinsey and his work, won the 2005 Imison Award.[55]
In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people.[56]
Significant publications[edit]
"New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 293–317. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"Life Histories of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 319–357. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 357a–c, 358–402. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"An Introduction to Biology". Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. 1926. (Essay on Kinsey's textbook)
"The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species". Indiana University Studies. 84-86: 1–517. 1929. (Citation source)
"New Introduction to Biology". Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1938 [1933].
"The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips". Indiana University Publications. Science Series 4. Entomological Series 10. 1936. pp. 1–334. (Citation source per Kinsey 1929)
Merritt Lyndon Fernald; Alfred Charles Kinsey (1996) [First published 1943 by Idlewild Press, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.]. "Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America". Mineola, New York: Dover Publications (reprint of Harper 1958 edition). ISBN 0-486-29104-9. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
The Kinsey Reports: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998)
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998)
See also[edit]
Judith Reisman, "the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement"[57]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Origin of the Institute". The Kinsey Institute. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "American Experience | Kinsey | Timeline". PBS. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
3.Jump up ^ "American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events". PBS. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
4.Jump up ^ "Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956)". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on 21 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
5.Jump up ^ Newton, David E. Sexual Health: A Reference Handbook page 133
6.Jump up ^ Weinberg, Martin S. (1976). "Sex Research: Studies from the Kinsey Institute". Oxford University Press. p. 25.
7.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-253-33734-8.
8.Jump up ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). "Kinsey: A Biography". Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press. p. 29.
9.Jump up ^ Yudell, Michael (July 1, 1999). "Kinsey's Other Report". Natural History 108 (6). ISSN 0028-0712.
10.Jump up ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey, A Biography. Indiana University Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-253-14625-9.
11.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life pages 188-189 "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. .. The chapter called "Further Evidence of Change" was espeically 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. To find proof of evolution, students had only to look 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."
12.Jump up ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1927). William Fletcher Russell, ed. An Introduction to Biology. Lippincott.
13.Jump up ^ "If Kinsey’s Textbook Could Talk …". Textbook History. 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
14.Jump up ^ Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." Natural History, ISSN 0028-0712, July 1, 2006, vol. 115, issue 6.
15.Jump up ^ Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics - Jennifer Baumgardner - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
16.Jump up ^ Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them - David J. Ley - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
17.Jump up ^ Baumgardner, Jennifer (2008-03-04). "kinsey+was+bisexual"#v=onepage&q=%22kinsey%20was%20bisexual%22&f=false "Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics". ISBN 9780374531089.
18.Jump up ^ Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. City of Bloomington Interim Report. Bloomington: City of Bloomington, 2004-04, 90.
19.Jump up ^ "Father of the Sexual Revolution". New York Times. November 2, 1997.
20.Jump up ^ "Alfred's brush with pleasure". Times Higher Education Supplement. 17 November 1997.
21.^ Jump up to: a b James H. Jones (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 610. ISBN 0393327248.
22.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-253-33734-8.
23.^ Jump up to: a b Janice M. Irvine (2005). Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Temple University Press. pp. 37–43. ISBN 978-1592131518. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Charles Zastrow (2007). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People. Cengage Learning. pp. 227–228. ISBN 0495095109. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life WW Norton New York, New York pages 441-445
26.Jump up ^ Boothe Cosgrove-Mather (January 27, 2003). "50 Years After The Kinsey Report". Associated Press, CBS News. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
27.^ Jump up to: a b c Bullough, Vern L. (1 August 1999). "Book Review "Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography"". Journal of Sex Research.
28.^ Jump up to: a b c Bullough, Vern L. (1 March 2006). "The Kinsey biographies". Sexuality & Culture (Vol 10, No 1).
29.^ Jump up to: a b "Kinsey Establishes the Institute for Sex Research". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
30.Jump up ^ "The Kinsey Institute - [Publications]". Indiana.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
31.Jump up ^ "The Kinsey Institute - [Publications]". Indiana.edu. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
32.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1. ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04086-0.
33.Jump up ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles; Clyde Eugene Mart (1998) [1948]. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 0-253-33412-8.
34.Jump up ^ "Kinsey Institute statement denies child abuse in study". Kinseyinstitute.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
35.Jump up ^ Brown, Mick (November 2004). "The bedroom and beyond". Telegraph magazine. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
36.Jump up ^ Welsh-Huggins, Andrews (September 1995). "Conservative group attacks Kinsey data on children". Herald-Times. "'There couldn't have been any research if we turned them in,' he said. "Of course we knew when we interviewed pedophiles that they would continue the activity, but we didn't do anything about that.' Providing such absolute assurances of anonymity was the only way to guarantee honest answers on such taboo subjects, said Gebhard."
37.^ Jump up to: a b Pool, Gary (Sep–Oct 1996). "Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft - head of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction". Humanist. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
38.Jump up ^ "Kinsey Institute director denies allegations by Reisman". Kinseyinstitute.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
39.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton.
40.^ Jump up to: a b Reumann, Miriam (2005). "American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports". Archives of Sexual Behavior (University of California Press, Berkeley: Springer Netherlands) 36 (5): 294.
41.^ Jump up to: a b New River Media. "NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: PAUL GEBHARD Colleague of Alfred Kinsey 1946-1956 Former Director of the Kinsey Institute". PBS.org. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
42.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2005). Kinsey: A Biography, p 285. London: Pimlico
43.Jump up ^ "How to Stop Gin Rummy". Time. 1948-03-01. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
44.Jump up ^ Rich, Frank (2004-12-12). "The Plot Against Sex in America". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
45.Jump up ^ "People". Time. 1949-03-07. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
46.Jump up ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey - Aug. 24, 1953 - Sex - Health & Medicine". Content.time.com. 1953-08-24. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
47.^ Jump up to: a b "5,940 Women". Time. 1953-08-24. Archived from the original on 9 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
48.Jump up ^ "Dr. Kinsey of Bloomington". Content.time.com. 1953-08-24. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
49.Jump up ^ Reinisch (1990), p. xvii.
50.Jump up ^ "The Jack Benny Show from September 15, 1953". Archive.org.
51.Jump up ^ "Dr. Kinsey is Dead; Sex Researcher, 62". New York Times. 1956-08-26.
52.Jump up ^ Quoted in Pomeroy (1972).
53.Jump up ^ "Dr. Kinsey". New York Times. 1956-08-27.
54.Jump up ^ "The Jack Benny Show from September 15, 1953". Retrieved 6 November 2011.
55.Jump up ^ "Imison Award 2005". Society of Authors. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
56.Jump up ^ http://www.legacyprojectchicago.org/2012_INDUCTEES.html
57.Jump up ^ Daniel Radosh (6 December 2004). "The Culture Wars: Why Know?". The New Yorker. Retrieved 14 November 2010.
Bibliography[edit]
Christenson, Cornelia (1971). Kinsey: A Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Drucker, Donna J. (2014). The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-6303-5
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (1998). Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0-253-33734-8
Hegarty, Peter (2013). Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-02444-8
Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-7567-7550-7
Pomeroy, Wardell (1972). Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research. New York: Harper & Row.
Reinisch, June M. (1990). The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex. New York: St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-05268-5
Reisman, Judith A. (2000). Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences [of] the Red Queen & the Grand Scheme. Second ed., rev. & expanded. Crestwood, Ky.: Institute for Media Education. ISBN 0-96666-241-5
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Alfred Kinsey
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Kinsey interviewing a woman.
Born
Alfred Charles Kinsey
June 23, 1894
Hoboken, New Jersey, United States
Died
August 25, 1956 (aged 62)
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
Residence
United States
Nationality
American
Fields
Biology
Institutions
Indiana University
Alma mater
Bowdoin College
Harvard University
Known for
Sexology and human sexuality: Kinsey Reports, Kinsey scale, Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction
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] now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. 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. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States, as well as internationally.
Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Personal life 2.1 Marriage and family
2.2 Personal habits
3 Sexology 3.1 The Kinsey Reports
3.2 Controversial aspects
4 In the media
5 Death
6 Legacy
7 Significant publications
8 See also
9 Notes
10 Bibliography
11 External links
Early life and education[edit]
Kinsey was born on June 23, 1894, in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Sarah Ann (née Charles) and Alfred Seguine Kinsey.[2] Kinsey was the eldest of three children. His mother received little formal education; his father was a professor at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Kinsey's parents were poor for most of his childhood, often unable to afford proper medical care. This may have led to a young Kinsey receiving inadequate treatment for a variety of diseases including rickets, rheumatic fever, and typhoid fever. 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. 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. His father was known as one of the most devout members of the local Methodist church. Most of Kinsey's social interactions were with other members of the church, often as a silent observer, while his parents discussed religion.[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.[2] Also at a young age, he showed great interest in nature and camping. 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. Kinsey's senior undergraduate thesis for psychology, a dissertation on the group dynamics of young boys, echoed this interest. He joined the Boy Scouts when a troop was formed in his community. 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 worked his way up through the Scouting ranks to earn Eagle Scout in 1913, making him one of the earliest Eagle Scouts.[4] Despite earlier disease having weakened his heart, Kinsey followed an intense sequence of difficult hikes and camping expeditions throughout his early life.
In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but hard-working student. While attending Columbia High School, he devoted his energy to academic work and playing the piano. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. 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. He seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but earned respect for his academic ability. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology. 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 approached his father with plans to study botany at college. His father demanded that he study engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology instead. Kinsey was not successful there, and decided engineering was not a field he was good at. He switched to Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he majored in biology.[5]
Regardless, he resumed his commitment to study. At Stevens, he primarily took courses related to English and engineering, but was unable to satisfy his interest in biology. 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 Maine.
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.[6][7] In 1916 Kinsey was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society and graduated magna cum laude, with degrees in biology and psychology.[8] Alfred Seguine didn't attend his son's graduation ceremony from Bowdoin, possibly as another sign of disapproval of his son's choice of career and studies. He continued his graduate studies at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States. It was there that Kinsey studied applied biology under William Morton Wheeler, a scientist who made outstanding contributions to entomology. Under Wheeler, Kinsey worked almost completely autonomously, which suited both men quite well.
Kinsey chose to do his doctoral thesis on gall wasps, and began zealously collecting samples of the species. 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 was granted a Sc.D. degree in 1919 by Harvard University, and published several papers in 1920 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. Of the more than 18 million insects in the museum's collection, some 5 million are gall wasps collected by Kinsey.[9]
Kinsey wrote a widely used high-school textbook, An Introduction to Biology, which was published in October 1926.[10] The book endorsed evolution and unified, at the introductory level, the previously separate fields of zoology and botany.[11][12][better source needed][13] Kinsey also co-wrote Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America with Merritt Lyndon Fernald, published in 1943. 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.[14]
Personal life[edit]
Marriage and family[edit]
Kinsey's home in Bloomington
Kinsey married Clara Bracken McMillen in 1921, whose ceremony, like his college graduation, was also avoided by Alfred Sr. They had four children. Their first-born, Donald, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. His daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and Bruce in 1928.
Kinsey was bisexual.[15] He and his wife agreed that both could sleep with other people as well as with each other. He himself slept with other men, including his student Clyde Martin.[16][17]
Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana at 1320 First Street. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.[18]
Personal habits[edit]
As a young man, Kinsey began inserting objects into his urethra - initially drinking straws before moving on to pipe cleaners, pencils and finally a toothbrush - to punish himself for having homoerotic feelings and inserting toothbrushes continued throughout his adult life.[19][20][21] After becoming accustomed to the pain of urethral insertions, Kinsey circumcised himself without anaesthesia.[21] As an adult, he had a "furious hatred" of potatoes.[22]
Sexology[edit]
The Kinsey Reports[edit]
Main article: Kinsey Reports
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, and as having liberated female sexuality.[23][24] 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.[23][24] He initially became interested in different forms of sexual practices in 1933, after discussing the topic extensively with a colleague, Robert Kroc. Kinsey had been studying the variations in mating practices among gall wasps. 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.
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 obtained research funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which enabled him to further study human sexual behavior.[25] 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 later became known as the Kinsey Reports. Articles about him appeared in magazines such as Time, Life, Look, and McCall's. 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.
Controversial aspects[edit]
Kinsey's research went beyond theory and interview to include observation of and participation in sexual activity, sometimes involving co-workers. Some of the data published in the two Kinsey Reports books is controversial in the scientific and psychiatric communities, due to the low amount of research that was done and Kinsey's decision to interview and sexually experiment with volunteers who may not have been representative of the general population.[26] Kinsey justified this sexual experimentation as being necessary to gain the confidence of his research subjects. He encouraged his staff to do likewise, and to engage in a wide range of sexual activity, to the extent that they felt comfortable; he argued that this would help his interviewers understand the participant's responses.[27][28] Kinsey filmed sexual acts which included co-workers in the attic of his home as part of his research;[29] 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.[30][31] James H. Jones, author of Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, and British psychiatrist Theodore Dalrymple, amongst others, have speculated that Kinsey was driven by his own sexual needs.[32]
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.[29]
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 between the ages of five months and fourteen years.[33] This information was said to have come from adults' childhood memories, or from parent or teacher observation.[34] Kinsey said he also interviewed nine men who had sexual experiences with children, and who told him about the children's responses and reactions. 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.[35] It was later revealed that Kinsey used data from a single pedophile and presented it as being from various sources. Kinsey had seen the need for participant confidentiality and anonymity as necessary to gain "honest answers on such taboo subjects".[36][37] The Kinsey Institute wrote 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.[37][38]
Jones wrote that Kinsey's sexual activity influenced his work, that he over-represented prisoners and prostitutes, classified some single people as "married",[39] and that he included a disproportionate number of homosexual men, which may have distorted his studies.[27][28] While he has been criticized for omitting African-Americans from his research,[40] his report on the human male includes numerous references to African American participants.[40] 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. 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.[27][28] Paul Gebhard, who was Kinsey’s colleague from 1946 to 1956 and who also succeeded Kinsey as Director of the Kinsey Institute following his death,[41] attempted to justify Kinsey's work in the 1970s by removing some of the suspect data he alleged showed a bias towards homosexuality.[41] After he recalculated the findings in Kinsey's work, he found only slight differences between the original and updated figures.[42]
In the media[edit]
The popularity of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male prompted widespread media interest in 1948. Time magazine declared, "Not since Gone With the Wind had booksellers seen anything like it."[43] 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. Kinsey!'"[44] 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." 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. Now I don't have to draw 'em any blueprints...We are both in the same business...Except I saw it first."[45]
The publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female prompted even more intensive news coverage: Kinsey appeared on the cover of the August 24, 1953, issue of Time.[46] The national news magazine featured two articles on the scientist, one focusing on his research, career and new book,[47] the other on his background, personality, and lifestyle.[48] In the magazine's cover portrait, "Flowers, birds, and a bee surround Kinsey; the mirror-of-Venus female symbol decorates his bow tie."[49] The lead article concludes with the following observation: "'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."[47] That same year, Kinsey appeared as a character in an episode of the Jack Benny TV program (September 15, 1953), in which he and his research were written into a sketch about Benny's 'fantasy' about Marilyn Monroe, a guest on the program.[50]
Death[edit]
Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. The cause of death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia.[51] 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. 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. 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. 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. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired.[52][53]
Legacy[edit]
After the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, 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. When "Dr. Kinsey" identifies himself to Jack Benny, Benny steps away in embarrassment.[54]
The early 2000s saw a renewed interest in Kinsey. In 2003 Theatre of NOTE produced the Steve Morgan Haskell play titled Fucking Wasps which followed Kinsey's life from childhood until death. Matt Sesow's paintings adorned the theatre along with David Bickford playing piano live. Written and directed by Steve Morgan Haskell, Fucking Wasps received many accolades, including a Playwriting of the Year nomination from Backstage West. Premiering in 2003, the musical Dr. Sex focuses on the relationship between Kinsey, his wife, and their shared lover Wally Matthews (based on Clyde Martin). The play had a score by Larry Bortniker, a book by Bortniker and Sally Deering, and won seven Jeff Awards. It was produced off-Broadway in 2005. The 2004 biographical film Kinsey, written and directed by Bill Condon, stars Liam Neeson as the scientist and Laura Linney as his wife. In 2004 T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel about Kinsey, The Inner Circle, was published. The following year, PBS produced the documentary Kinsey in cooperation with the Kinsey Institute, which allowed access to many of its files. Mr. Sex, a BBC radio play by Steve Coombes concerning Kinsey and his work, won the 2005 Imison Award.[55]
In 2012 Kinsey was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBT history and people.[56]
Significant publications[edit]
"New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 293–317. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"Life Histories of American Cynipidae". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 319–357. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 42: 357a–c, 358–402. 1920. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
"An Introduction to Biology". Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company. 1926. (Essay on Kinsey's textbook)
"The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species". Indiana University Studies. 84-86: 1–517. 1929. (Citation source)
"New Introduction to Biology". Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1938 [1933].
"The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips". Indiana University Publications. Science Series 4. Entomological Series 10. 1936. pp. 1–334. (Citation source per Kinsey 1929)
Merritt Lyndon Fernald; Alfred Charles Kinsey (1996) [First published 1943 by Idlewild Press, Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y.]. "Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America". Mineola, New York: Dover Publications (reprint of Harper 1958 edition). ISBN 0-486-29104-9. Retrieved 22 October 2010.
The Kinsey Reports: Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948, reprinted 1998)
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953, reprinted 1998)
See also[edit]
Judith Reisman, "the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement"[57]
Notes[edit]
1.Jump up ^ "Origin of the Institute". The Kinsey Institute. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
2.^ Jump up to: a b "American Experience | Kinsey | Timeline". PBS. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
3.Jump up ^ "American Experience | Kinsey | People & Events". PBS. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
4.Jump up ^ "Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894-1956)". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on 21 December 2006. Retrieved 2006-11-09.
5.Jump up ^ Newton, David E. Sexual Health: A Reference Handbook page 133
6.Jump up ^ Weinberg, Martin S. (1976). "Sex Research: Studies from the Kinsey Institute". Oxford University Press. p. 25.
7.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 0-253-33734-8.
8.Jump up ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). "Kinsey: A Biography". Bloomington/London: Indiana University Press. p. 29.
9.Jump up ^ Yudell, Michael (July 1, 1999). "Kinsey's Other Report". Natural History 108 (6). ISSN 0028-0712.
10.Jump up ^ Christenson, Cornelia V. (1971). Kinsey, A Biography. Indiana University Press. p. 57. ISBN 0-253-14625-9.
11.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life pages 188-189 "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. .. The chapter called "Further Evidence of Change" was espeically 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. To find proof of evolution, students had only to look 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."
12.Jump up ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles (1927). William Fletcher Russell, ed. An Introduction to Biology. Lippincott.
13.Jump up ^ "If Kinsey’s Textbook Could Talk …". Textbook History. 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
14.Jump up ^ Del Tredici, Peter. "The Other Kinsey Report." Natural History, ISSN 0028-0712, July 1, 2006, vol. 115, issue 6.
15.Jump up ^ Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics - Jennifer Baumgardner - Google Books. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
16.Jump up ^ Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them - David J. Ley - Google Books. Books.google.com. 2009-12-16. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
17.Jump up ^ Baumgardner, Jennifer (2008-03-04). "kinsey+was+bisexual"#v=onepage&q=%22kinsey%20was%20bisexual%22&f=false "Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics". ISBN 9780374531089.
18.Jump up ^ Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory. City of Bloomington Interim Report. Bloomington: City of Bloomington, 2004-04, 90.
19.Jump up ^ "Father of the Sexual Revolution". New York Times. November 2, 1997.
20.Jump up ^ "Alfred's brush with pleasure". Times Higher Education Supplement. 17 November 1997.
21.^ Jump up to: a b James H. Jones (2004). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 610. ISBN 0393327248.
22.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2000). Sex, the Measure of All Things: A Life of Alfred C. Kinsey. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p. 6. ISBN 0-253-33734-8.
23.^ Jump up to: a b Janice M. Irvine (2005). Disorders of Desire: Sexuality and Gender in Modern American Sexology. Temple University Press. pp. 37–43. ISBN 978-1592131518. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
24.^ Jump up to: a b Charles Zastrow (2007). Introduction to Social Work and Social Welfare: Empowering People. Cengage Learning. pp. 227–228. ISBN 0495095109. Retrieved March 15, 2014.
25.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life WW Norton New York, New York pages 441-445
26.Jump up ^ Boothe Cosgrove-Mather (January 27, 2003). "50 Years After The Kinsey Report". Associated Press, CBS News. Retrieved April 4, 2014.
27.^ Jump up to: a b c Bullough, Vern L. (1 August 1999). "Book Review "Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things; A Biography"". Journal of Sex Research.
28.^ Jump up to: a b c Bullough, Vern L. (1 March 2006). "The Kinsey biographies". Sexuality & Culture (Vol 10, No 1).
29.^ Jump up to: a b "Kinsey Establishes the Institute for Sex Research". American Experience: Kinsey. PBS. Archived from the original on 21 January 2008. Retrieved 2008-01-03.
30.Jump up ^ "The Kinsey Institute - [Publications]". Indiana.edu. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
31.Jump up ^ "The Kinsey Institute - [Publications]". Indiana.edu. 1997-11-03. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
32.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (1. ed.). New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-04086-0.
33.Jump up ^ Kinsey, Alfred Charles; Clyde Eugene Mart (1998) [1948]. Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Indiana University Press. pp. 178–180. ISBN 0-253-33412-8.
34.Jump up ^ "Kinsey Institute statement denies child abuse in study". Kinseyinstitute.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
35.Jump up ^ Brown, Mick (November 2004). "The bedroom and beyond". Telegraph magazine. Archived from the original on 2 December 2009. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
36.Jump up ^ Welsh-Huggins, Andrews (September 1995). "Conservative group attacks Kinsey data on children". Herald-Times. "'There couldn't have been any research if we turned them in,' he said. "Of course we knew when we interviewed pedophiles that they would continue the activity, but we didn't do anything about that.' Providing such absolute assurances of anonymity was the only way to guarantee honest answers on such taboo subjects, said Gebhard."
37.^ Jump up to: a b Pool, Gary (Sep–Oct 1996). "Sex, science, and Kinsey: a conversation with Dr. John Bancroft - head of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction". Humanist. Retrieved 2008-01-07.
38.Jump up ^ "Kinsey Institute director denies allegations by Reisman". Kinseyinstitute.org. Retrieved 2013-12-04.
39.Jump up ^ Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton.
40.^ Jump up to: a b Reumann, Miriam (2005). "American Sexual Character: Sex, Gender, and National Identity in the Kinsey Reports". Archives of Sexual Behavior (University of California Press, Berkeley: Springer Netherlands) 36 (5): 294.
41.^ Jump up to: a b New River Media. "NEW RIVER MEDIA INTERVIEW WITH: PAUL GEBHARD Colleague of Alfred Kinsey 1946-1956 Former Director of the Kinsey Institute". PBS.org. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
42.Jump up ^ Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (2005). Kinsey: A Biography, p 285. London: Pimlico
43.Jump up ^ "How to Stop Gin Rummy". Time. 1948-03-01. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
44.Jump up ^ Rich, Frank (2004-12-12). "The Plot Against Sex in America". New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
45.Jump up ^ "People". Time. 1949-03-07. Archived from the original on 17 October 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
46.Jump up ^ "TIME Magazine Cover: Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey - Aug. 24, 1953 - Sex - Health & Medicine". Content.time.com. 1953-08-24. Retrieved 2014-04-15.
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Christenson, Cornelia (1971). Kinsey: A Biography. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Drucker, Donna J. (2014). The Classification of Sex: Alfred Kinsey and the Organization of Knowledge. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-6303-5
Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan (1998). Alfred C. Kinsey: Sex the Measure of All Things. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 0-253-33734-8
Hegarty, Peter (2013). Gentlemen’s Disagreement: Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-226-02444-8
Jones, James H. (1997). Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-7567-7550-7
Pomeroy, Wardell (1972). Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research. New York: Harper & Row.
Reinisch, June M. (1990). The Kinsey Institute New Report on Sex. New York: St. Martin's. ISBN 0-312-05268-5
Reisman, Judith A. (2000). Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences [of] the Red Queen & the Grand Scheme. Second ed., rev. & expanded. Crestwood, Ky.: Institute for Media Education. ISBN 0-96666-241-5
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