No one person has done
more to shape modern sexual values in America and therefore the Western world
—than Dr. Alfred Kinsey. The researcher’s ground-breaking 1949 study, "Sexual
Behaviour in the Human Male", which followed by its companion work on females,
tore aside the curtain of silence on sexuality and lifted the taboos on talking
freely about what popular culture would previously only refer to as "makin’
whoopee". Kinsey’s research into what makes us tick in the
bedroom not only laid the groundwork for the 1960s sexual revolution, but also
did the same for much of the theory behind modern-day sex education. After
Sigmund Freud made his career reminding us how repressed we were, Kinsey grabbed
the baton and went on to show us what we could do about it. But now his post-war
glory has faded and conservative critics point to AIDS, drugs and other social
ills as natural products of 1960s counter-culture. Kin A. Kinsey used unusual subjects in his research. B. Kinsey’s sample represented average people. C. Kinsey made errors in data analysis. D. Kinsey’s findings were useless.
