Kinsey

[ kin-zee ]

noun

1. Alfred Charles, 1894–1956, U.S. zoologist; directed studies of human sexual behavior.

Kinsey

/ ˈkɪnzɪ /

noun

1. KinseyAlfred Charles18941956MUSSCIENCE: zoologistMEDICINE: sex researcher Alfred Charles. 1894–1956, US zoologist, who directed a survey of human sexual behaviour

Kinsey

/ kĭn′zē /

1. American biologist and zoologist noted for his studies of human sexuality. He published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953 (commonly known as the Kinsey reports), based on interviews with 18,500 Americans about their sexual practices. The reports revealed a greater variety of sexual behavior than had previously been suspected and received widespread attention in the scientific community and among the general public. The reports have been criticized for their statistical limitations and especially for the restricted nature of the sample, consisting almost exclusively of white, middle-class men and women, primarily under age 35.

Example Sentences

Kinsey is re-examining how he weighs risk this upcoming school year after his family’s battle with the virus.

From Washington Post

For nearly a week, Kinsey felt like he had been “run over by a truck.”

From Washington Post

“We wanted to do something sustainable to promote change and inclusion in wine,” Stevenson told me in a Zoom call that included Mitchelson, Kinsey and Marlen Porter.

From Washington Post

The nonprofit club is an educational partner of the Kinsey Collection, so subscribers will also receive “educational assets above and beyond the wine and tasting notes,” Kinsey says.

From Washington Post

This may explain the Kinsey finding that “generally, only partnered activities were linked to improvements.”

From Nautilus

Like a Kinsey Report for the big-data era, there's a gold mine of findings here to titter about.

From The Daily Beast

It reads more like a historical document, the Kinsey report on the sex lives of the rich and famous.

From The Daily Beast

The hero is one Kinsey Millhone, who sounds less like a private eye than a natural-gas concern.

From The Daily Beast

It is called The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln, by the distinguished gay member of the Kinsey Institute, Dr. C. A. Tripp.

From The Daily Beast

In his 1953 report, Alfred Kinsey found that younger married couples had sex about twice a week.

From The Daily Beast

He went through the Kinsey books and absorbed a lot of data and graphs and figures on human behavior that meant nothing to him.

From Project Gutenberg

In the clinical history of the disease there are, according to Mr. Kinsey, four stages.

From Project Gutenberg

In trying to bring Captain Kinsey off the field, young Overdoff was killed, shot through the head.

From Project Gutenberg

Near home, there was a store kept by Mr. Kinsey, in copartnership with Mr. Pusey.

From Project Gutenberg

We've been saving our money this ever so long, and Mrs. Kinsey bought it for us.

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