“Am I normal? Am I interested in the right things? Do I do them the normal way?” Many people will ask these questions as they discover their sexuality, and in 2020 they are more likely than ever to find reassuring voices. Eighty years ago, however ,American biologist Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson) would have answered with simply, “I don’t know”. He could have speculated, but Kinsey was a man of science. He could not conclusively answer such questions because American society knew very little beyond the social norm of “man plus woman equals baby”.
Kinsey sought to change this societal ignorance with his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the American Male, which was constructed using detailed, face-to-face interviews with over 5000 men across the United States. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female followed five years later, which applied a similar methodology to a sample of some 6000 women. But this is not where Kinsey,...
Kinsey sought to change this societal ignorance with his 1948 book Sexual Behavior in the American Male, which was constructed using detailed, face-to-face interviews with over 5000 men across the United States. Sexual Behavior in the Human Female followed five years later, which applied a similar methodology to a sample of some 6000 women. But this is not where Kinsey,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jack Hawkins
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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