Sexes: A New Kinsey Report

Researchers look at gays

Sex Researcher Alfred Kinsey intended to do a study of U.S. homosexuals, but he died in 1956 before the survey could be launched. It took twelve more years for his successors at the Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Ind., to start that project and ten years to complete it. Along the way, the Kinsey-ites spent $1 million and conducted two-to five-hour interviews in the San Francisco Bay Area with 979 male and female homosexuals and a comparison group of 477 heterosexuals. The result of their labors is a tome...

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