Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey was an American biologist and sexologist whose large-scale interviews about sexual behavior produced two influential reports published in 1948 and 1953.

Wardell Pomeroy: An American sexologist who coauthored the Kinsey Reports and helped conduct their interviews. Pomeroy was a central collaborator in gathering and analyzing the interviews.
Kinsey scale: A seven-point scale placing heterosexual and homosexual experience along a continuum, with an additional category for no sociosexual contacts or reactions. It translated varied reports of attraction and behavior into a continuum rather than fixed types.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male: A 1948 report by Alfred Kinsey and colleagues describing interviews about male sexual behavior. This first report brought Kinsey’s interview findings to national attention.
Sexual revolution: A broad mid-twentieth-century change in sexual attitudes, norms, and practices in many Western societies. The reports helped make private sexual behavior a subject of public debate.
Clyde Martin: An American sex researcher who coauthored the Kinsey Reports and worked at the Institute for Sex Research. Martin helped carry Kinsey’s research program beyond its first major publication.
Survey sampling: The selection of individuals from a population to estimate characteristics of that population. Kinsey’s sample was not a probability sample, limiting population-wide estimates.
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female: A 1953 report by Alfred Kinsey and colleagues describing interviews about female sexual behavior. Its publication extended the project to women and intensified public controversy.
Sexology: The interdisciplinary study of human sexuality, including its biological, psychological, and social dimensions. Kinsey’s research helped shape sexology as a modern empirical field.
Paul Gebhard: An American anthropologist and sex researcher who led the Institute for Sex Research after Kinsey’s death. Gebhard continued the institute’s work and reassessed the survey evidence.
Structured interview: An interview conducted using a consistent set of questions and procedures across participants. Standardized questioning helped make thousands of sensitive interviews comparable.

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