Alfred Kinsey (jun 23, 1894 – aug 25, 1956)
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Alfred Kinsey was an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist.He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. The Kinsey scale is supposed to determine sexual orientation. 0 being exclusively heterosexual and 6 being exclusively homosexual. Kinsey believed that sexuality was fluid and changes over time.
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jun 23, 1894
aug 25, 1956
~ 62 years