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The books commonly known as the Kinsey Report were Dr Alfred C. Kinsey’s monumental scientific publishing achievement in 1948, often compared to the atomic bomb for its impact on the American public. On the sexagennial anniversary of the publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, this book focuses on Alfred C. Kinsey’s work and life. Sixteen chapters consider the Kinsey legacy, tracing the development of modern American bisexuality, and posing an intriguing and illuminating look at many aspects of bisexuality in Kinsey’s life as depicted and lived in popular biographical culture and media. Contributors to this stellar collection of outstanding writing include the final surviving member of Kinsey's original research team, Dr Paul H. Gebhard, PhD, as well as leading names in the fields of sex research, GLBTIQA activism, and bisexual writing. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Bisexuality and was a Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Excellence in Bisexual Literature.

Alfred C. Kinsey’s revolutionary studies of human sexual behavior are world-renowned. 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. In The Classification of Sex, Donna J. Drucker presents an original analysis of Kinsey’s scientific career in order to uncover the roots of his research methods. She describes how his enduring interest as an entomologist and biologist in the compilation and organization of mass data sets structured each of his classification projects. As Drucker shows, Kinsey’s lifelong mission was to find scientific truth in numbers and through observation—and to record without prejudice in the spirit of a true taxonomist. Kinsey’s doctoral work included extensive research of the gall wasp, where he gathered and recorded variations in over six million specimens. His classification and reclassification of Cynips led to the speciation of the genus that remains today. During his graduate training, Kinsey developed a strong interest in evolution and the links between entomological and human behavior studies. In 1920, he...

When published in 1948 this volume encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. It is, however, a milestone on the path toward a scientific approach to the understanding of human sexual behavior. Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex. They employed first hand interviews to gather this data. This volume is based upon histories of approximately 5,300 males which were collected during a fifteen year period. This text describes the methodology, sampling, coding, interviewing, statistical analyses, and then examines factors and sources of sexual outlet.

In this brilliant biography of sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey, Jones unlocks the long-closed archives of the Kinsey Institute to present a moving & even shocking portrait of the man who pierced the veil of reticence surrounding human sexuality. Here is an incisive portrait that truly separates the myth from the man. Shows that the public image of disinterested biologist cultivated by Kinsey was a carefully crafted public persona. The Kinsey who emerges here was a social reformer who devoted his every waking hour to the destruction of sexual repression. Kinsey's life is much more than the story of a scientist who sparked the cultural debate of our century. His odyssey illustrates in microcosm the transition from Victorian to modern times. Photos.

Biografie van Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956), oprichter van het Kinsey-Instituut, waar baanbrekend werk werd verricht op het gebied van (homo)seksualiteit.

An in-depth history of Alfred Kinsey’s groundbreaking Institute for Sex Research and the cultural awakening it inspired in America—“it has no rival” (Angus McLaren). While teaching a course on Marriage and Family at Indiana University, biologist Alfred Kinsey noticed a surprising dearth of scientific literature on human sexuality. He immediately began conducting his own research into this important yet neglected field of inquiry, and in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research as a firewall against those who opposed his work on moral grounds. His frank and dispassionate research shocked America with the hidden truths of our own sex lives, and his two groundbreaking reports —Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)—both became New York Times bestsellers. In The Kinsey Institute: The First Seventy Years, Judith A. Allen and her coauthors provide an in-depth history of Kinsey’s groundbreaking work and explore how the Institute has continued to make an impact on our culture. Covering the early years of the Institute through the “Sexual Revolution,” into the AIDS pandemic of the Reagan era, and on into the “internet ...

When first published in 1948, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male encountered a storm of condemnation and acclaim. By unshackling sex research from flawed founding constraints, Kinsey revolutionized it. In this 75th anniversary edition, featuring a new foreword from Judith A. Allen, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male revisits the work of Alfred C. Kinsey and his fellow researchers as they sought to accumulate an objective body of facts regarding sex. Originally an entomologist, Kinsey applied his fieldwork taxonomy methods to human sexuality. With 5,300 research subjects, his undertaking was the largest sex research project of its time, transforming the field. With scientific exactness, Kinsey describes the methodology, sampling, coding, interviewing, and statistical analyses, and then examines factors and sources of sexual outlet. Told through men's experiences of sexuality and reproduction, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male: Anniversary Edition is a remarkable rumination on American society and science in the early 20th century.

The groundbreaking Kinsey Report study on female sexuality from “one of the most influential figures in American intellectual history” (The New York Times). Originally published in 1953, the material presented in Sexual Behavior in the Human Female was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual anatomy, physiology, psychology, and endocrinology. The study revealed the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity and how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior. The authors make comparisons of female and male sexual activities and investigate the factors which account for the similarities and differences between female and male patterns of behavior and provide some measure of the social significance of the various types of sexual behavior. “[It] shocked the world in 1953 with its explicit revelations. Countries banned it. Churches berated it. Some scholars scoffed . . . but it was an instant success, selling 270,000 copies in less than a month . . . [Kinsey] made headlines around the globe with his findings on such things as...

Includes a history of the Institute.

..."Reflects screenwriter and director Bill Condon's five year foray into the facts, figures and files of Kinsey's life and work for his film "Kinsey" "--Jacket.

This volume, originally published in 1979, is the culmination of the Kinsey Institute's desire to compile and publish the data from the original Institute case histories taken from 1938 to 1963. The complete sample has been "cleaned" by separating out those from 'sexually biased" groups (e.g., the delinquent sample) leaving a basic sample of 5,637 males and 5,609 females. The marginal tabulations are presented along with descriptions of the interviewing and sampling process. As the editors explain, their rationale for publication was to present the sorts of data the Institute had available so that other scientists could request it for use in their research, hopefully leading to further analyses and new approaches and ideas.

Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist. Known as the father of the sexual revolution, Dr. Kinsey's work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States and around the world. On April 8, 1947, Dr. Alfred Kinsey and his research team incorporated as the Institute for Sex Research. ISR had two primary goals: to continue the team's research on human sexual behavior; and to administer research resources, including research materials, a library, case histories, and other related materials. In 1981, 25 years after Dr. Kinsey's death, the Institute for Sex Research was renamed The Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. Sex Research: Early Literature from Statistics to Erotica covers the topic of human sexuality as it was treated in the writings of the 18th and 19th centuries, although it should be noted that there are also books from the 17th and 20th centuries, as well as some books that were reprints of older texts from previous centuries. The books in this collection are taken from the Alfred C. Kinsey Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University and offer a view into the materials Dr. Kinsey acquired in...

When Alfred Kinsey's massive studies Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female appeared in 1948 and 1953, their detailed data spurred an unprecedented public discussion of the nation's sexual practices and ideologies. As they debated what behaviors were normal or average, abnormal or deviant, Cold War Americans also celebrated and scrutinized the state of their nation, relating apparent changes in sexuality to shifts in its political structure, economy, and people. American Sexual Character employs the studies and the myriad responses they evoked to examine national debates about sexuality, gender, and Americanness after World War II. Focusing on the mutual construction of postwar ideas about national identity and sexual life, this wide-ranging, shrewd, and lively analysis explores the many uses to which these sex surveys were put at a time of extreme anxiety about sexual behavior and its effects on the nation. Looking at real and perceived changes in masculinity, female sexuality, marriage, and homosexuality, Miriam G. Reumann develops the notion of "American sexual character," sexual patterns and attitudes that were understood to be uniquely...

Named one of the "100 Best Books of the 20th Century" by Logos Magazine (UK). Will be on display at the Frankfurt Book Fair 1999.

Introducción; El ámbito de la criminología; La criminología en el mundo; La criminología en Colombia; La divergencia; Divergencia, desviación y criminalidad; Dilemas centrales de la criminología; Comprensión de la conducta divergente; Énfasis médico-Biológico; Énfasis psicologíco; Énfasis sociológico; Énfasis antropológico cultural; Énfasis político - económico; Reacción social ante la desviación; El ámbito de la reacción social; Reacción social institucional; Reacción social informal; Prevención de la desviación; El ideal de una reacción social humanística.

A virginal man with a beautiful wife accepts a job as an assistant to Dr. Alfred Kinsey, a charming professor whose life's calling is sex.

ESTE ENSAYO DA UN SENTIDO BIOLAGICO A LA HOMOSEXUALIDAD HUMANA ...Se pone enfasis en la escala propuesta por Kinsey para redefinir a toda la especie humana como bisexual. El autor, doctor en biologia por la Universidad de Barcelona, compara la sexualidad humana con la de los grandes simios. Los machos de los grandes simios de las especies exclusivamente heterosexuales exhiben conductas sociales muy violentas. La pauta violenta solo se amortigua en los machos de las especies bisexuales: bonobos y humanos. Para el autor, la bisexualidad es un invento de la naturaleza, no un invento humano, no es la sexualidad enferma que aun se predica por ahi. Es tan solo la forma mas facil, natural y sencilla de moderar, suavizar, atenuar y debilitar la violencia intrinseca que se encuentra profundamente arraigada en los genes de todos los primates y por tanto en los hombres.

"En el mundo actual todo se relativiza y reduce a conceder mayor importancia al “género”, instaurado como derecho fundamental por los ideólogos del pool: marxismo cultural-capitalismo privado y capitalismo de Estado. La mayoría que habla de género parece desconocer en qué consiste y más concretamente de la “igualdad de género” que se predica. Así y a través del no conocimiento, el “género” se ha constituido en la columna vertebral del sistema capitalista-marxista, en la temática cultural, ideológica y comercial, que asediando a la familia penetra todos los intersticios de la vida humana y social; y trastoca esencialmente no solo a la familia, sino a instituciones tales como el matrimonio, la filiación, el parentesco y la adopción, tal y como se puede constatar en este libro. La dialéctica de la ideología de género está construida estratégicamente de tal forma, que se dirige imperceptiblemente a la deconstrucción (destrucción, deshacer) de la familia como célula fundamental de la sociedad, para aspirar crear de un hombre y una mujer nuevos desde la ideología del neomarxismo cultural, aun cuando este no admite la inevitable realidad...

'Interesante ensayo que los amantes de las ciencias naturales leerán encantados. La tesis del autor es que la mayoría de los humanos somos bisexuales en diferentes grados (y así vuelve a poner en valor el Informe Kinsey sobre la sexualidad dividida en siete escalones) y que es esa bisexualidad lo que hace que no seamos una sociedad tan violenta como la de los chimpancés ni tan pacífica como la de los bonobos, nuestros más cercanos parientes en la escala evolutiva ('¦ el libro está escrito en un lenguaje clarísimo y en un castellano de frases concisas, algo muy de agradecer en este tipo de libros)La pregunta que se hace (y la que nos hacemos todos) es: entonces ¿por qué no vivimos libremente nuestra bisexualidad, como se hizo en Grecia y Roma? El autor lo tiene claro: por culpa de la presión social causada por lar religiones monoteístas. Finalmente, el libro tiene unas buenísimas intenciones: exhortar a cada individuo a ser feliz en su sexualidad de la manera que él crea conveniente.' -elputojacktwist-

"Aunque la palabra genio a menudo se usa en la cultura popular y en los medios de comunicación, se usa con mayor frecuencia en completa ignorancia de la extensa investigación científica sobre ese mismo tema. Estas investigaciones comenzaron hace más de 150 años y continúan hasta nuestros días. Por supuesto, estos resultados de investigación no son accesibles para los lectores comunes. La mayoría de los resultados están enterrados en revistas técnicas llenas de estadísticas esotéricas y matemáticas. Por esto, los descubrimientos centrales deben extraerse y comunicarse a un público más amplio de alguna manera. Ese es uno de los principales objetivos de este libro."