The admiration for Kinsey reminds me of those who still insist that Vladimir Lenin’s body, “is so life-like.”
Sigmund Freud is a virtual laughingstock in psychology today because his research methods were so dubious. Yet Alfred Kinsey, whose methodology centered on that ancient technique called “Making Stuff Up,” and who dabbled in the social sciences when he wasn’t out chasing butterflies, is regarded as a credible source of information on human sexuality?
Uh huh.
He was one sick F’er from Indiana. Did a lot of his research first hand in cruising bathhouses and loaned out his wife to his resaerch interns. A few of his researcher’s wives also got into the act.
All for so called science.