United States cisgender man bisexual man sexologist Alfred Kinsey 1894-06-23T00:00:00 1956-08-25T00:00:00 http://www.isni.org/000000010857455X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kinsey https://viaf.org/viaf/51777372 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q186561 An American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, previously known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States as well as internationally. Encyclopedia of Homosexuality The Complete Dictionary of Sexology Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History in America