As Alfred Kinsey gathered information for his pioneering study of human sexuality, the question his subjects inevitably struggled with was that of normalcy. “Am I normal?” asked the young wife, ...
“The Inner Circle,” Jim Geisel says, is probably the most provocative play he’s staged in the area. Given the subject matter, that’s not a surprise. Geisel adapted the play from T.C. Boyle’s 2004 ...
A trained biologist, Kinsey achieved fame, even notoriety, in the 1940s and '50s with a pair of best-selling books about male and female sexual behavior ... controversial research he defended on ...
I am off to Bloomington in South-Central Indiana, further on the trail of Gershon Legman, social critic, sex researcher, writer and folklorist. In the 1940s, before his exile in France, Legman worked ...
Kinsey: Conventional Film, Unconventional SubjectFilm critic Ken Turan reviews Kinsey, about the noted sex researcher, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney in the roles of Alfred Kinsey and his wife.
From the beginning of his formal sex research in 1938, Alfred Kinsey was fortunate to have a strong supporting cast of research assistants, people who shared his missionary fire along with the burden ...
Parents who feel embattled by the envelope-pushing entertainment industry and "non-judgmental" sex education in the schools may not realize it, but the source of their frustration has a name: Alfred ...
Starting in 1938, thousands of Americans sat in Alfred Kinsey's interview chair. What was it like to give a sexual history to the Indiana University professor and his team of researchers? Hear from ...
Just when we thought Alfred Kinsey was dead and buried, he turned up again, like a bad penny in the sex education curriculum of the Montgomery County, Md., public schools. Kinsey makes a cameo ...