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Alfred Kinsey, Author Mondadori Publishers (specific photographer unknown) (PD in Italy)

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“More than half a century after the publication of his landmark study, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Alfred C. Kinsey remains [controversial]…Though some hail him for liberating the nation from sexual puritanism, others revile him as a fraud whose ‘junk science’ legitimized degeneracy…One independent scholar has even accused him of sexual crimes… [1A]”

The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction at Indiana University has encoded the 7,985 sex histories Alfred Kinsey collected, along with another 10,000 his team collected [1B][2].

This source material and Kinsey’s methodology have never been made public [1C][3A].  Consequently, they have not been subject to critical peer review.  That has not diminished their influence.

Kinsey is infamous for having met in June 1944 with Rex King — a deviant whose sexual encounters with men, women, boys, girls, animals and family members took 17 hours to record [1D].

Both before and after meeting with King, Kinsey encouraged him to share the details of his perversion.  Kinsey wrote, “I rejoice at everything you send, for I am then assured that that much more of your material is saved for scientific publication [1E].” Continue reading →