1950's Science and Technology | Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

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By: Alfred Charles Kinsey

Date: 1953

Source: Kinsey, Alfred Charles. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1953, 416–418.

About the Author: Alfred Charles Kinsey (1897–1956) was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. He joined Indiana University's zoology department in 1920, rising to full professor in 1929. An entomologist by training, Kinsey turned to human behavior, founding the Institute for Sexual Research in 1938 and publishing groundbreaking work on male and female sexual behavior in the 1940s and 1950s.

Introduction

Kinsey's work followed a century of efforts to understand human sexuality. In The Descent of Man (1871) Charles Darwin tied human sexual behavior to his theory of evolution and argued that sexual selection played a role in human evolution. In the early twentieth century, Austrian...