But he definitely succeeded in two very important tasks. ( 01:09) Like many researchers of human behavior, Kinsey and his colleagues were- and in some cases still are- pretty controversial. He established the "Kinsey scale" indicating degrees of sexual orientation) and went on to write the seminal texts on sexual behavior in the human male and female respectively. He surveyed thousands of men and women about their sexual habits and histories, and found all sorts of interesting things related to sexual preferences, masturbation, orgasms, and pre-marital sex. ( 00:39) And wasps are interesting and everything, but Kinsey's interests drifted toward human sexuality and his research in Indiana University paved the way for decades of study into sex. His doctoral thesis was on the genealogy of Gall wasps, a subject he tackled with intensity meticulously collecting over five million samples, measuring hundreds of thousands of specimens. He studied etymology in college, graduated with degrees in biology and psychology before heading to Harvard. And by most accounts you can thank one guy for that: Alfred Kinsey. Kinsey was born in 1894 in New Jersey, to poor strict Methodist parents. ( 00:00) People have been having sex and writing songs about it and carving statues of it and changing fashion for it since the dawn of humanity, but it wasn't until fairly recently in the 1940s that serious Western scientific study of sex began. Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Social & Cultural Factors of Sexual Desire 7:11Ĭrash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at The Four-Stage Sexual Response Cycle 3:48 Want more videos about psychology? Check out our sister channel SciShow Psych at ! In this episode of Crash Course Psychology, Hank talks about Kinsey, Masters and Johnson, Sexuality, Gender Identity, and Hormones, and even looks into the idea of why we have sex. But, it's the entire purpose of life, so there's no reason to blush. Sex is complicated for different reasons in different cultures.
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