Word: kinsey
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About 150 people attended the program last night, held at the House of Blues on Winthrop Street. Blues performers at the event included 13-year-old guitarist "Monster" Mike Welch, Darryl Nulich, and Chicago band Big Daddy Kinsey and the Kinsey Report...
...MANY HETEROSEXUALS IN THE U.S. ARE practicing safe sex? Precious few, say scientists conducting the first large-scale national sex survey since the original Kinsey study more than 40 years ago. Preliminary results of a telephone canvass of more than 10,000 Americans show that up to 31% of heterosexuals have put themselves at some level of risk for contracting AIDS over the past five years, usually by having multiple sex partners or unprotected sex with someone who is either HIV positive, a blood-transfusion recipient, an intravenous drug user or engaged in some other high-risk behavior...
...often do not call themselves bisexual. But the ability to respond erotically to both sexes seems to be a common human trait. Bisexuality frequently occurs among male and female adolescents in many cultures and is an entrenched though unspoken practice among men in some Latin and Muslim societies. Alfred Kinsey's classic surveys in the '40s and '50s of American middle-class sexual mores found that about 46% of the men that were interviewed and 12% of the women admitted to sexual experiences with both sexes...
Although such findings suggest a strong biological influence, they are hardly conclusive. One problem: Are the differences in brain tissue the cause or the result of differences in behavior? "You've always got to keep in mind that experience changes the brain," stresses June Reinisch, director of the Kinsey Institute. And if nature is paramount, why don't identical twins always have the same sexual orientation...
According to Kinsey, sexuality is a continuum. On the heterosexual-to- homosex ual scale of 0 to 6 that he devised, only 50% of male subjects can be classified as exclusively straight and 4% exclusively gay. Sharrard falls right in the middle of the Kinsey scale, equally attracted to men and women, but such balance is rare. Tessina calls herself a 2, mostly heterosexual...