In fact, the reverse is truethey partly explain why it was so successful and, in a field where only approximations are possible, more accurate than any since. There have been suggestions that his bisexuality and his courageous personal exploration biased his research. The revolutionary nature of his views on female sexuality could not become current until the feminism of the 1970s and 80s. He pioneered observation and filming of sexual activity, the findings anticipated, and confirmed by, Masters and Johnson thirty years later. Bisexual, he experimented with many of the behaviors he was hearing about and his wife and close colleagues experimented too. But Kinseys exploration went much further than that. His Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report), published in 1948, was an explosive bestseller, followed in 1953 by his even more radical statistics on female sexuality both based on over 18,000 case histories. But in making Kinsey part of a global twentieth-century culture, Gathorne-Hardy opens the way for other scholars and critics to read the life and the work from a variety of intellectual and national perspectives.Īlfred Kinsey was this centurys first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. These may sound like strange bedfellows for the son of a strict Methodist family, growing up in small-town America. He is a pioneer of modernism, along with Lawrence, Henry Miller and Picasso, and a philosopher of sexuality, along with Foucault. Gore Vidalįor Gathorne-Hardy, Kinsey is primarily an artist, a collector, a novelist, a mythologist. "At exactly the right moment, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy has produced a serious study of Kinsey, of the man and the work.This is the book we needed to cap Kinseys work of liberation at this centurys end.
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Kinsey is one of the most fascinating and influential figures of the century, a flawed visionary whose brave and amusing experiences are a testament to the rich complexity of human sexuality.With grace and wit Gathorne-Hardy has given us the full measure of the man." Michael Shelden, Daily Telegraph "A deeply humane book.This biographys vivid portrait of a genius possessed is so compelling that you end up caring more about the man than the science. "America produced Alfred Kinsey, but hes big enough to go around." ≾laine Showalter, Times Literary Supplement
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