As students climb the steps of a converted dorm and head to class on the Indiana University campus, couples walk hand in hand, arms are wrapped around waists and flirtatious remarks are traded back ...

This month, the film Kinsey starring Liam Neeson opens nationwide. Neeson plays Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the Indiana University zoology professor who until his mid-forties was best known as an expert on an ...

Current debates on gay marriage and sexual orientation almostalways contain ideas that arise from the famous work of AlfredKinsey. Kinsey’s studies, cited with confidence by generations ofsociologists ...

In the new film “Kinsey,” writer-director Bill Condon tries to capture a sprawling biography from the 20th century. Alfred C. Kinsey went from being an obscure biology professor (he collected more ...

Anonymous, Man Cross Dressing, mid-20th century Credit: Courtesy of the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction By now, thanks to the movie Kinsey (2004) and Showtime’s Masters ...

If you didn’t know what to look for, you’d miss it. In the spring and summer, it’s partially obscured by Indiana University’s maple and oak trees, and in winter, its naked Collegiate Gothic design ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The unending 50-year war over Alfred Kinsey and his sex research is about to ...

On a January day in 1948, a hefty book filled with turgid scientific prose, and scores of tables and charts, landed amid an unsuspecting American public. The tome reported, matter-of-factly and ...

America’s carnal knowledge has expanded, to put it mildly, in the years since Dr. Alfred Kinsey (1894-1956) published his ground-breaking books “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” (1948) and “Sexual ...

Alfred C. Kinsey — was he the Paul Revere of the sexual revolution, or a cultural pariah, a “pervert” who opened the Pandora’s box of deviant American sexuality? His groundbreaking research and his ...

I am off to Bloomington in South-Central Indiana, further on the trail of Gershon Legman, social critic, sex researcher, writer and folklorist. In the 1940s, before his exile in France, Legman worked ...