Alfred Kinsley
(1894-1956)
Alfred C. Kinsey was an American zoologist in Indiana University.
He made many lasting contributions to the study of insects, but later in 1937, switched his interest to sexology when offered to teach a course on marriage.
He saw that the existing studies on sexual behavior were lacking scientific validity, and developed certain methodologies for data collection, mainly in the form of interviews, that eventually provided the statistical basis for the study of sexual behavior as in homosexuality, pre-marital sex, masturbation or the nature of female orgasm among white Americans.
Kinsey Report became the first comprehensive empirical study of human sexuality based on more than 16,000 interviews conducted with white Americans.
Major Works of Alfred Kinsey
- New Species and Synonymy of American Cynipidae (1920)
- Life Histories of American Cynipidae (1920)
- Phylogeny of Cynipid Genera and Biological Characteristics (1920)
- An Introduction to Biology (1926)
- The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips (1930)
- New Introduction to Biology (1933)
- The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips (1935)
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948)
- Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953)
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