Sex Research:
Methods and Problems
Alfred Kinsey
Suggested links for further exploration of topics
are found below with a brief desciption of what you can expect to find if you follow each link.
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WARNING: Occasionally a link will go dead or will lead to a website with different content than when I first discovered it.
I welcome feedback from my students regarding such changes.
Alfred Kinsey Movie Trailer
A movie based on the life of Alfred Kinsey was released in Fall 2004.
It played in a very limited number of theatres. Apparently theatre owners thought it was too controversial or did not have a broad enough appeal to be financially worth showing. You can see a trailer for the movie here.
Websites about Kinsey and his work
Kinsey's Heterosexual-Homosexual Rating Scale
One of Kinsey's significant contributions to present thinking is his view of homosexuality and heterosexuality as a graded continuum rather than an either/or distinction. Here you can see the 7-point rating scale he developed which is still widely used today.
Research After Kinsey
National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (2010)
At this site you can read about some of the findings of this study.
