Alfred Kinsey Homosexuality

Alfred Kinsey was raised by a very Christian family with his father being a part time Methodist preacher. With his father being a part of church and being so strict with religion he was severely discouraged from any sexual contact with woman. With his sexuality being stunted and being so repressed Kinsey looked to other things to feel accepted and feel academically more superior. His father’s strict lifestyle was not the only thing that compelled Kinsey to become the man he is known to be today, it was also his early life of sickness and poverty. Kinsey was picked on by others often and made to feel small so he used academics to be more superior. With this early life it was a mold to create a hardworking, curious, and very intelligent person.

I think the theory that everyone is different sexually is true and that people betray their own nature to fit in.

Sexuality is made to be feel ashamed about still to this day, woman who sleep around because that’s how they feel sexually are referred to as whores but men are not referred to in that manner, so woman hide or even repress themselves to feel more accepted. Homosexuality and transgender are big and popular right now because it’s just now starting to be accepted into society. But for century’s people push how they truly feel deep down until they can’t handle it anymore. I don’t feel that we should betray our sexuality everyone is different, if people were more open and not ashamed then homosexuals wouldn’t feel the way they do, and transgender people would feel more comfortable, woman would be proud of their sexuality and be more open with what they want in life. Also more openness I believe will help with teen pregnancy and even lessen the spread of STDS because the shame that surrounds sex and sexuality is

horrendous.
Kinsey used the survey research method as he interviewed large groups of people with several questions and made assumptions from that. This method is more about the answer to the questions no actual evidence because he is relying on the honesty of people. The other methods like direct observation would have been more intrusive and back in that time probably would of be harder to get people to agree to. There were no experiments going on with this or any observations besides maybe the indivuals emotions or body language when answering questions. Some of the advantages to this would be it is a cheap and quick way to getting results, and can get a broader range of results because you can use many people instead of a few. But a disadvantage was he had to rely on the answers for his research, if they lied or were inaccurate that would ultimately affect the overall results, and demographic bias is disadvantage as you may not have the wide range of Americans to make a general blanket statement about sexual behaviors.
Alfred Kinsey’s research was very controversial because the 40’s and 50’s were still a time when sexuality was taboo because people were very strict with religion and very conservative.

Not only that but woman were still repressed back then and I think for woman to have participated and even a book published on their participation was outrageous to think about back then. Men were in control back then, woman were the housewives who dedicated their lives to home making and being the perfect wife, sex was not something woman even “needed”. Sex in regards to woman was more about reproduction and not so much satisfaction. I think it was shock for men and more conservative woman who did not participate to believe that woman would even talk about this openly. When Kinsey released his second book on woman and sexuality, people were not happy and the counterattack was so horrendous that the congress opened an investigation into his financing to figure out who was funding his programs, that’s when one of his big funders the Rockefeller foundation backed out taking a chunk of money. He was even sued by U.S. customs for having erotic photos after his second book was released, this would cause any fear for any new funding, no one wants to be associated with any legal trouble , justified or

not.
Kinsey’s research is still used to today as a reference to studies based on sexuality and creates a database to be used to this day. Kinsey’s reports and books can be used to show behavioral changes over the years and the consistency with the research about homosexuality and heterosexuality. Even with 50 years passed his work shows the validity in others work and reports about certain topics. His work has allowed many researchers to obtain funding more easily along with more acceptances in that field; his research also helped form laws about sexuality. His legacy helped lead to the revolution of sex, and the ability to feel more open about sexuality and desires.