The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to Kinsey Institute, exists "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction".
In 1948 and 1953 the Institute published two monographs on human sexuality, generally now known as the Kinsey Reports. Ever since, the Institute, the reports and Kinsey himself have been the subject of controversy.
Among its functions is to preserve the supporting materials of the Kinsey Reports and subsequent publications, making them available for new research while preserving confidentiality.
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External links
Kinsey Institute home page (http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/)
Timeline of events and major publications (http://www.indiana.edu/~kinsey/about/chronology.html)
Books
"Peek - Photographs from the Kinsey Institute" (ISBN 1-892041-35-9)
The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction, often shortened to Kinsey Institute, exists "to promote interdisciplinary research and scholarship in the fields of human sexuality, gender, and reproduction".
The Institute was founded as the Institute for SexResearch at Indiana University at Bloomington in 1947 by Alfred Kinsey, then an entomologist and zoologist at Indiana University.
The Institute for SexResearch was incorporated in 1947, only a year before Sexual Behavior in the Human Male appeared in bookstores, but Alfred Kinsey'ssexresearch had begun two decades earlier, during entomological expeditions with favored graduate students.
The Institute for SexResearch opened its doors in 1947, a private, nonprofit organization located on the second floor of Indiana University's Biology Hall, a few steps from the office Kinsey had occupied since his arrival in Bloomington in 1920.
The institute survived the lawsuit, the publication of Kinsey's two books about male and female sexual behavior, accusations of Communist activities, and the subsequent loss of its funding -- and exists today as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
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