Alfred Kinsey

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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  5/12/2023
  

  Indiana U. Pres.: Legislative Attack on Kinsey Institute a Attack on Academic Freedom

  Ironically, Alfred Kinsey's work was the subject of moral panics and suppression in his own lifetime. 

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• SOURCE: Indiana Public Media
  5/5/2023
  

  Indiana's Kinsey Institute will Have to Carry on Without State Funds

  The pioneering research institute for the study of human sexuality has been a victim of the "groomer" moral panic; the legislator introducing the funding restrictions has called the late Alfred Kinsey a pedophile and suggested the institute was "hiding child predators." 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  2/22/2023
  

  Indiana Legislature Votes to Defund IU's Kinsey Institute

  Conservative lawmakers invoked the specter of child sexual exploitation to argue for defunding the leading American center for research on human sexuality. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  9/7/2022
  

  75 Years On, the Kinsey Institute Continues to Influence How we Think About Sex

  Tasked with teaching a course on marriage and family, biologist Alfred Kinsey was shocked by the lack of scientific research on human sexuality. In 1947 he launched a research institute to fill that void.