앨프리드 킨제이

소개

알프레드 찰스 킨제이(Alfred Charles Kinsey, 1894년 6월 23일 ~ 1956년 8월 25일)는 미국의 동물학자이다. 보든 대학교를 졸업하고 인디애나 대학교 동물학 교수를 지냈다. 동 대학 및 록펠러 재단의 지원으로 인간의 성적 행동을 연구하였으며, 동성애에 관한 연구결과를 담은 킨제이 보고서의 저자로 유명하다.

Alfred Charles Kinsey was an American sexologist, biologist, and professor of entomology and zoology who, in 1947, founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. He is best known for writing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports, as well as for the Kinsey scale. Kinsey's research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, provoked controversy in the 1940s and 1950s, and has continued to provoke controversy decades after his death. His work has influenced social and cultural values in the United States and United Kingdom as well as internationally.