Kinsey report on American sexual habits

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The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Domains

Human Sexuality

Dates

Date of occurrence 1953-08-18

Places

United States (Location)

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In 1948 the first of the two Kinsey reports on human sexual behaviour was published,

Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

. The publication of

Sexual Behavior in the Human Female

followed in 1958. Dr Alfred Kinsey (23rd June, 1894 - 25th August, 1956), a zoologist and head of the Indiana University's Institute for Sex Research, based his reports on thousands of personal interviews conducted by himself and his research team, and their findings both outraged and fascinated fifties America. The reports went on to become best sellers and revolutionized public perceptions of sexuality and morality.

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