Medicine: Statistician of Sex

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With his deep conviction that nothing must remain in the human animal beyond the reach of statistical measurement, he laid out a schedule of future work that would take several lifetimes to complete—seven or eight more volumes, on sexual behavior in the European male and female, homosexual behavior, sex laws, and sexual behavior of prison inmates. Last week, his major work only begun, Dr. Alfred Kinsey died, at 62, of a heart ailment complicated by pneumonia. His staff may or may not complete the projected series that, he had hoped, would free another generation from old misunderstandings and fears about sex—leading them ever onward under the sign of biological normalcy.

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