Kinsey
[kin-zee]
- Alfred Charles,1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.
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Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.
It reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous.
Confessions of a Sex Escort to the Stars: Scotty Bowers’s Memoir, ‘Full Service’Ramin Setoodeh
February 18, 2012
The hero is one Kinsey Millhone, who sounds less like a private eye than a natural-gas concern.
It is called The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by the distinguished gay member of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. C. A. Tripp.
Historical Examples
This is a respectable neighborhood, and I'm not answering any Kinsey report, understand?
Teething RingJames Causey
Cram and Kinsey were already there, and to them the skipper was telling his story.
Waring's PerilCharles King
We've been saving our money this ever so long, and Mrs. Kinsey bought it for us.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a ShoeAmanda Minnie Douglas
Captain Kinsey, of Company C, was severely wounded, and never returned.
In The RanksR. E. McBride
They tell a story here about Kinsey, the late and unlamented.
Le Petit NordAnne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell and Katie Spalding
Kinsey
- Alfred Charles. 1894–1956, US zoologist, who directed a survey of human sexual behaviour
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Kinsey
[kĭn′zē]
- American biologist and zoologist noted for his studies of human sexuality. He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953 (commonly known as the Kinsey reports), based on interviews with 18,500 Americans about their sexual practices. The reports revealed a greater variety of sexual behavior than had previously been suspected and received widespread attention in the scientific community and among the general public. The reports have been criticized for their statistical limitations and especially for the restricted nature of the sample, consisting almost exclusively of white, middle-class men and women, primarily under age 35.
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