May 16, 2005 19:59
don't pay any attention to this it's just a research paper I needed to some how get to my moms laptop.
REMINDERS FOR MYSELF FOR THIS PROJECT;
condoms.
sex survey.
Alfred Kinsey
Sex Researcher
An american zoologist known for his sex research. Alfred Charles Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 23, 1894. He received his doctorate in 1920 from Harvard University, where he had been awarded the Sheldon travelling fellowship. He held teaching appointments in both botany and zoology at Harvard before becoming assistant professor of zoology at Indiana University. By 1929 he was made a full professor there.
Kinsey got an early reputation as an entomologist with research on the life of the gall wasp. Kinsey provided research which added much to knowledge of genetics and evolution. He might now be famed only among biologists had he not in the 1930s joined 11 other teachers in giving a marriage course. Kinsey shocked by the students lack of knowledge about sex he decided to begin a study.
Dr. Kinsey conducted the first mass scientific survey of human sexual behavior. With Kinsey's reputation made sex, still a very taboo topic in 1948, acceptable to read and his book even sold out. Although his book got much assualt from relgious groups and critics it soon became a best seller.
Kinsey’s has an open support for contraception causing him to be dismissed as a sex education lecturer. In 1942 with Rockerfeller Foundation and National Research Council funds Kinsey set up the Institute for Sex Research.
Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male published in 1948 concluded that homosexual acts were much more common than had been thought. Average men attained the peak of virility at about 16 or 17 years of age, and then steadily declined thereafter. Also said that man who began sexual activies early held their power.
Sexual Behaviour in the Human Female was published in 1953. By that time politics has changed in America. Communists became a big fear to all, people began to thing that Kinsey was suspected of wrong doing, and being linked to the Reds by the Reece Committee. His fundings were soon withdrawl for research and he died of a heart attack two years later.