Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About gall wasps, Dr. Kinsey knows just about all there is to know. About sex, he probably knows more than any other man alive, and he has built up one of the greatest collections of erotica ever assembled. Yet he is an almost monotonously normal human being...
...Indiana University, where he still works, in 1920, and rose slowly in the academic hierarchy. He might still be an obscure professor of zoology had not twelve teachers, of whom he was one, joined together in the '30s to give a "Marriage Course." Students asked Kinsey about sex, and he was shocked to discover how little was known scientifically about the sexual behavior of human beings. Before this, he seems to have had no particular interest in the subject. But once he got started, it was the gall wasp all over again. When he began his research, some...
...that vary between blue and hazel, and a sensitive, rather tense mouth above a hard jaw. His wife, whom he calls "Mac," was a graduate student of chemistry, and has been a great help. Being scientifically trained, she raised no objection at all when he started his work on sex, and sometimes she helps him in the office typing confidential documents. She teaches classes in swimming, runs the local Girl Scout camp, and loves the great outdoors...
...staff on one of their picnics would never suspect that these nice, comfortable faculty folks were engaged in studies any more stimulating than the use of the comma in Chaucer. Visitors are exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from room to room, cabinet...
...drank moderately with people whose sexual histories he was exploring, it would produce a better rapport. The system seems to work. Nobody who has given his case history to Kinsey is likely to forget the experience. His own family has contributed; he took his daughter Joan's sex history when she was in high school, and after she married, her husband offered his to his father-in-law. The questioning may take from 1½ to 3½ hours, and penetrates every aspect of the subject's sexual life, including details that seem utterly outlandish even to highly...