Alfred Kinsey Sex Researcher 1894 1956 By Megan

Alfred Kinsey Sex Researcher - 1894 -1956 By: Megan Brogely

Alfred Kinsey • • Born August 23, 1894 – Hoboken, New Jersey Mother – Sarah Ann Father – Alfred Siguine 1 brother, 1 sister

Sarah Ann & Alfred Siguine • Sarah • • • Very little education Alfred • Preacher • Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology Belief: Masturbation, sex, nocturnal emission, and girls are BAD!! Status: poor > avg. • No medical help at first Divorced 1930

Sickness • Suffered severely from Rickets, Rheumatic Fever, and Typhoid before the age of 10 • Bed rest – very little contact with friend • Age 9 – little time with friends - basement • Then the move

New Beginnings • Moved – Orange, New Jersey • High School – Big Accomplishment! • Biology Club – bugs • Boy Scouts – Birds and the Bees

Fathers views • • Sex was always considered bad and never talked about Homosexuality and adultery were crimes Masturbation was seen as a mental illness Premarital sex was immoral Common sex practices were perverted Touching private parts was sinful Nocturnal emission was shameful Avoid opposite sex!

After Graduation • Because of the inspiring award, Alfred wanted to pursue his career in Biology • Father crushes dream • Went to his fathers college • Struggles in school and stops

Start of his fame • Kinsey goes to Bowdoin College in Maine • Still went to church, prayed, worked for Christian organizations, Boy Scouts, and YMCA • Interest in Gall Wasps • Starting in 1922 Kinsey published long papers on his findings followed by two extensive books: The Gall Wasp Genus Cynips: A Study in the Origin of Species (1930) and The Origin of Higher Categories in Cynips (1936). • His views on taxonomy won wide acceptance, and his 1926 textbook for undergraduates, An Introduction to Biology, was well received and went through three editions. In 1937 he was made a “starred scientist” in American Men of Science. • Interested him in human sexual behaviors • Success at Bowdoin > off to Grad School at Harvard

Crush • He attracted the attention of female students and university office workers. • Stayed away! • Good friend Anderson during Harvard years

• Job offer at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana as an assistant professorship in the Zoology Department • Wrote two books – Sexual Behavior in the Male, Sexual Behavior in the Female • Student vs Teacher • Clara Mc. Millen (MAC)

Clara & Alfred • • • Dated Went hiking, camping trips Got married June 1921 Honeymoon experience = failure Clara had a minor surgical procedure 4 children – Don, Anne, Joan, Bruce

Clara Mc. Millen • • • Born: Oct. 2, 1898 Bloomington, Indiana Education: Indian University Major: Chemistry Honors: Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and others Grad School: attended but left after meeting Kinsey Job: Help with the Kinsey reports of Human Sexuality

Kinsey and his other “loves” • Kinsey had expressed that he had fell in love with two men before Clara • Ralph Voris (right) • Shared common interests • Sex education – contraceptives, body parts, intercourse • Clyde Martin (middle) • Sexual relations, preferred women

Punishment • Kinsey was shameful of being homosexual • Punished himself – YAAOUUUCHHH!! • • Drinking straws Pipe cleaners Pencils Toothbrush • Became accustomed to pain- circumcision

Side job • • Sex still interested Kinsey as well as his bugs, wanted to go further Counseling students with sex problems – like boy scouts Became more interested in sex as he spoke with them Distributed a sex questionnaire to his grad students

• Approached the president of the university and suggested he teach a course that would prepare students for marriage by addressing sexual issues • In 1938. Kinsey began a series of biology lectures in a course the university called “a marriage course”. • Students were very uneducated about sex!

More digging! • Kinsey was wanting more information about sex • Sets up own institute – Institute for Sex Research, in Bloomington • Interviews > sex histories • Traveled to collect sex histories • All are volunteered people of all kinds of people • White, black, homosexual, heterosexual, young, old, ect.

• Kinsey had 3 assistance – Wardell Pomeroy, Paul Gebhard, and Clyde Martin • • • MAC helped also Clyde Martin was the other love before MAC Clyde’s big question!! Kinsey’s reaction! MAC’s response!!!

Acceptable? • • • Having sex with other people’s wives were acceptable Secretive Kinsey was interested in recording sexual activities – new project Hired a photographer and recorder - attic Photographed people masturbating, engaging in oral and anal sex, and employing in S&M techniques.

What do people think of Kinsey? • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=hp. Jwru 7 I 1 a. Y

Questionnaire Findings • 100, 000 volunteered • 67% had oral sex • 37% had at least 1 homosexual contact that resulted in an orgasm • 17% of farm boys had sexual relations with the animals

Kinsey’s popular success • • Cartoonist Comedians Martha Raye – “Ohh Dr. Kinsey” Speeches

Children’s reaction • One of his son’s denied who he was when asked by his professor • One of his daughter’s told people her father was the owner of Kinsey Whiskey company, not the sex researcher • Clara was unfazed: she told people she was an ordinary housewife, stay-at-home mom whose husband went to work everyday, thought to a sex research center not an office.

Death • • Alfred Kinsey had an enlarged heart, pulse raced, and diuretics. Dr. said to take it easy Kinsey didn’t listen – always wanting to do more Following month: • Aug 25 th 1956, age 62

Controversy • • • Interviewing: prisons and homosexuals Too many sex offenders in samples Mechanistic view of sex, not love Photos, films, sex with staff and other people Religious reasons

Kinsey the Legend • • • Openness to sex Acceptance of homosexuals 50’s Hugh Hefner – Playboy 60’s Sexual freedom – hippies 70’s Sexual fantasies 80’s & 90’s pregnancy, menstruation, menopause, birth control • Roe vs Wade – abortion, contraception

The Movie • Kinsey had a movie produced after him • Nov 4, 2004 • https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=e 19 Gny. Nd. C 48

Questions? • Did Kinsey do a good thing? • Do you think that Kinsey was a sex criminal or a pervert? • If it weren’t for Kinsey, do you think sex would still be forbidden upon or someone else would have started it? • What was most interesting/most shocking about Alfred Kinsey in your opinion?

Resources • • http: //www. kinseyinstitute. org/about/Movie-facts. html The book – Kinsey, Linda Wolfe http: //www. encyclopedia. com/topic/Alfred_Charles_Kinsey. aspx http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey