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Alfred Kinsey

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1894 – 1956

Alfred Kinsey
Kinsey Male Screenshot

American scientist Alfred Kinsey was famous for his research on human sexuality. He showed that sexuality is not binary and fixed but that there are gradations between “exclusively heterosexual” and “exclusively homosexual.”

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Kinsey, A., Pomeroy, W., and Martin, C. (1948). Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders; Copyright © 2017, The Trustees of Indiana University on behalf of the Kinsey Institute.

The Kinsey scale, originally published in Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) by Alfred Kinsey.

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