It’s a captivating legacy for a man who spent the first half of his career studying the gall wasp.ĭepending whom you ask, Kinsey - the creator of the Kinsey Scale of sexual behavior along a continuum - either ignited a radically progressive understanding of human sexuality created a scale that doesn’t come close to encapsulating the range of human sexuality or even, according to one critic, “spent his lifetime ripping down the institution of the family.”įirst published in 1948, Kinsey’s eponymous scale classified people according to their degree of attraction or sexual behavior toward the same or other sex: 0 being “exclusively heterosexual” and 6 being “exclusively homosexual” - with a big swath of gray in between. Alfred Kinsey’s imprint on the world of sexuality has - and continues to - inspire criticism, fascination, even outrage.
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