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Alfred C. Kinsey  

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  • Alfred C. Kinsey was a pioneering and controversial American sexologist whose work in the 1940s and 1950s challenged the scientific, moral, and political conventional wisdom about sex in America. A Harvard-trained zoologist, Kinsey began studying sex to address what he saw as a dangerous lack of credible information about what was common and “normal” sexual behavior. [Source: Encyclopedia of Gender and Society; Kinsey, Alfred C. (1894-1956)]

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