![]() Both his biographers regard him as a brave pioneer and reformer, but differ sharply about almost everything else. Even among scholars sympathetic to Kinsey there's disagreement. ![]() Though some hail him for liberating the nation from sexual puritanism, others revile him as a fraud whose "junk science" legitimized degeneracy. His studies helped bring sex - all kinds of sex, not just the stork-summoning kind - out of the closet and into the bright light of day.īut not everyone applauds that accomplishment. Thanks to him, it's now common knowledge that almost all men masturbate, that women peak sexually in their mid-30's and that homosexuality is not some one-in-a-million anomaly. He's certainly the only entomologist ever to be immortalized in a Cole Porter song. Kinsey remains one of the most influential figures in American intellectual history. MORE than half a century after the publication of his landmark study, "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," Alfred C.
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