The Kinsey Institute
2009; BMJ; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1783/147118909787072441
ISSN2045-2098
Autores Tópico(s)Academic Freedom and Politics
ResumoWhat's your mission?Dr Alfred Kinsey began collecting sexual histories in the late 1930s to fill a 'gap in knowledge'.As a scientist, he was driven to provide scientific data to inform about sexual behaviour; as a professor, teaching a marriage course focused on human sexuality at Indiana University, he had searched for data to provide to his students.Since such data were quite limited, he began by interviewing students, then by reaching out beyond the university to various groups and communities.The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction (more commonly referred to as The Kinsey Institute) aims
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