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Kinsey

[ kin-zee ]

noun

  1. Alfred Charles, 1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.


Kinsey

/ ˈkɪnzɪ /

noun

  1. KinseyAlfred Charles18941956MUSSCIENCE: zoologistMEDICINE: sex researcher Alfred Charles. 1894–1956, US zoologist, who directed a survey of human sexual behaviour


Kinsey

/ kĭn /

  1. American biologist and zoologist noted for his studies of human sexuality. He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953 (commonly known as the Kinsey reports), based on interviews with 18,500 Americans about their sexual practices. The reports revealed a greater variety of sexual behavior than had previously been suspected and received widespread attention in the scientific community and among the general public. The reports have been criticized for their statistical limitations and especially for the restricted nature of the sample, consisting almost exclusively of white, middle-class men and women, primarily under age 35.


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Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.

It reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous.

The hero is one Kinsey Millhone, who sounds less like a private eye than a natural-gas concern.

It is called The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by the distinguished gay member of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. C. A. Tripp.

In his 1953 report, Alfred Kinsey found that younger married couples had sex about twice a week.

He went through the Kinsey books and absorbed a lot of data and graphs and figures on human behavior that meant nothing to him.

In the clinical history of the disease there are, according to Mr. Kinsey, four stages.

In trying to bring Captain Kinsey off the field, young Overdoff was killed, shot through the head.

Near home, there was a store kept by Mr. Kinsey, in copartnership with Mr. Pusey.

We've been saving our money this ever so long, and Mrs. Kinsey bought it for us.

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KinsellaKinsey, Alfred