What is Alfred Kinsey?
[[File:Alfred Kinsey 1955.jpg|thumb|Alfred Kinsey in 1955]] '''Alfred Charles Kinsey''' (June 23, 1894 {{ndash}} August 25, 1956) was an [[Americans|American]] [[biologist]].<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9045578/Kinsey,%20Alfred%20Charles britannica.com]</ref> He was born in [[Hoboken, New Jersey]].<ref>Scherrer, David L. ; Linda M. Klepacki 2004. ''How to talk to your kids about sexuality'' Cook Communications Ministries Colorado Springs, CO, page 56</ref> In the first part of his career he was an [[entomologist]] specializing in [[gall wasp]]s of the [[family (biology)|family]] Cynipidae. Later, he became famous for the research he did on [[human sexuality]].<ref>Gathorne-Hardy, Jonothan 1998. ''Sex the measure of all things''. London: Chatto & Windus. {{ISBN|1-8561-9604-6}}</ref> His research had a great influence on social and cultural values in many parts of the world. It also had an influence on the [[sexual revolution]] of the 1960s and 70s. Kinsey and his co-workers wrote two books which became known as the [[Kinsey Reports]]. They were based on thousands of interviews with men (first report),<ref>Kinsey, Alfred ''et al'' 1948. ''Sexual behavior in the human male''. Saunders.</ref> and then women.<ref>Kinsey, Alfred ''et al'' 1953. ''Sexual behavior in the human female''. Saunders.</ref> The aim was to find out how widespread or differentiated human sexual practices were. He developed the '''Kinsey Scale''' to measure [[sexual orientation]]. On one end of the scale, at the value 0, the individual is entirely [[heterosexual]]. On the other end, at value 6, he or she has a purely [[homosexual]] orientation. Kinsey was [[bisexual]]. Kinsey died of [[heart disease]] and [[pneumonia]] in [[Bloomington, Indiana]]. A [[biopic]] of him, ''[[Kinsey (movie)|Kinsey]]'', was released in 2004. *Research into sexual behaviour was also conducted by the Masters and Johnson research team: [[William H. Masters]] and [[Virginia E. Johnson]]. == Early work == Kinsey wrote his doctoral thesis on [[gall wasp