A trained biologist, Kinsey achieved fame, even notoriety, in the 1940s and '50s with a pair of best-selling books about male and female sexual behavior ... controversial research he defended on ...

Congress passes the Comstock Law, defining contraceptives as obscene material and making it illegal for them to be sent through the U.S. mail or transported from state to state. At the time, the ...

Dr. Alfred Kinsey, famed sex researcher, was fond of saying that “only variations are real.” What started out as an insight into the complexity of gall wasps ...

Thanks to decades of activism, research, and LGBTQ+ individuals sharing their own lived experiences, it’s become common knowledge that sexuality is a spectrum—or, in other words, less black or white ...

Tonight, PBS American Experience will air "Kinsey," a 90-minute biography of a scientist whose personal struggles and obsessive nature propelled him to break through the silence on human sexuality, ...

For 75 years, The Kinsey Institute, world famous for its study of human sexuality, has been a prominent part of Indiana University. That relationship could soon change. Tomorrow, university trustees ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Unfounded claims about Indiana University’s sex research institute, its founder and child sex abuse have been so persistent over the years that when the Legislature prohibited ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana University’s ...

Go away, Thomas Benton. We don’t want your kind around here. Welcome, Alfred Kinsey. You are one of us. So it goes in the swamp of 21st century culture. Or perhaps we are just witnessing the moral ...

“The Inner Circle,” Jim Geisel says, is probably the most provocative play he’s staged in the area. Given the subject matter, that’s not a surprise. Geisel adapted the play from T.C. Boyle’s 2004 ...

Indiana University’s board of trustees abandoned a proposal to turn the Kinsey Institute into a nonprofit Friday, dispelling monthslong uncertainty over the future of the famous sex research center ...