His research survey, "The Kinsey Report" was the first to detail sexual
activity in the USA. It caused a major sensation when first published
in a sexually repressive 1950s USA.
Bowdoin College (B.S., 1916), Harvard (D.Sc., 1920).
His father, Alfred S. Kinsey, was an engineering instructor at the
Stevens Institute of Technology.
On 7 December 1995 Representative Steve Stockman introduced a bill
(H.R.2749) before the U.S. House of Representatives to determine if
Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" and/or "Sexual Behavior in
the Human Female" are the result of any fraud or criminal wrongdoing.
The bill was introduced following the 1990 publication of _Kinsey, Sex
and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People_ by Judith Reisman and Edward W.
Eichel. The book alleges that Kinsey's research involved sexual
experimentation on children.
Kinsey's wife, Clara, died in 1982 at the age of 83. They had 4
children: Don (in 1922), the first born, died just before his 5th
birthday from diabetes. Anne was born in 1924, Joan in 1925, and Bruce
in 1928.
He was nominated for the 2024 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Education & Science category.