Kinsey Scale

Alfred C. Kinsey is one of the most influential the researchers who have studied sexuality. His interest in sex research began in 1947 at Indiana University. There, he founded the Institute for Sex Research, now know as the Kinsey Institute. Some of his most influential research was directed to homosexuality. Kinsey believed that homosexuality was much more prevalent than had been previously thought. In fact, his findings indicated that 37 percent of males in the US at that time had one or more homosexual experiences. This finding, however, was heavily criticized due to the fact that Kinsey did not use probability sampling. In other words, his subjects were not randomly selected. Because all of Kinsey