Alfred Kinsey, Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948).
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It is a fundamental of taxonomy that nature rarely deals with discrete categories. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior, the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex.
— Alfred Kinsey on Taxonomy
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About Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey PhD (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was a sexologist, entomologist and zoologist who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington (now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction).
About Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Charles Kinsey PhD (June 23, 1894 – August 25, 1956) was a sexologist, entomologist and zoologist who founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University at Bloomington (now called the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction).
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