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A Summary of The Kinsey Institute

   

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Demetrius L. JenkinsA Summary of The Institute for Sex Research (ISR), popularly known as“The Kinsey Institute”By Dr. Alfred Charles KinseyEstablished in Bloomington, Indiana on April 8, 1947 Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey founded a non-profit organization called the Institute for Sex Research also known as The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University. Dr. Kinsey arrived at Indiana University in 1920 a year after receiving his Ph.D. in biology from Harvard University.It was in 1938 when he seems to be changing lanes towards the subject of sex. Marriage and Family is one of the first courses he began teaching seniors and married students at the university. This opens the door for what appears to be the opportunity he’s been looking for, considering that for the majority of his career his focus has been studying insects (Gall Wasps), specializing in taxonomy and individual variations.In December 1940, Kinsey submitted an application for a research grant to the National Research Council’s Committee for Research in Problems of Sex; the following year, C.R.P.S. awarded him $1,600. With his first grant under his belt, and more to come, Kinsey set out to recruit research assistants, people he could train to conduct interviews and trust not to betray confidences. As each of these men joined his staff, Kinsey made him memorize the entire interview, in all of its possible permutations, as well as the code for recording the resultsBy 1948, no longer satisfied with merely collecting other people’s histories, Kinseystarted encouraging his research staff to experiment sexually with each other.During his tenure as president of Indiana University, Wells doggedly took on Kinsey’s detractors in one of the most heralded instances of the protection of academic freedom in the mid-20th century.After the release of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Wells said: Indiana University stands today, as it has for 15 years, firmly in support of the scientific research project that has been undertaken and is being carried out by one of its eminent biological scientists, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey.
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