Alfred Charles Kinsey
(23 Jun 1894 - 25 Aug 1956)

American zoologist and sexologist who was the founder of the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University.


Science Quotes by Alfred Charles Kinsey (7)

Among all types of sexual activity, masturbation is ... the one in which the female most frequently reaches orgasm.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), 132.
See also:  |  Female (6)  |  Sex (24)

Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), 545.
See also:  |  Inhibition (3)  |  Male (6)  |  Sex (24)  |  Wife (3)

Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), 639.
See also:  |  Heterosexual (2)  |  Homosexual (2)

The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), 638.
See also:  |  Heterosexual (2)  |  Homosexual (2)

The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), 545.
See also:  |  Male (6)  |  Marriage (13)  |  Sex (24)

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), 537-8.
See also:  |  Female (6)  |  Male (6)  |  Sex (24)  |  Variation (12)

There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.
— Alfred Charles Kinsey
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), 195.
See also:  |  Immature (2)  |  Neurotic (3)  |  Sex (24)  |  Understanding (94)


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