The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction is a research institute at Indiana University. Established in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1947 as a nonprofit, the institute merged with Indiana University in 2016, "abolishing the 1947 independent incorporation absolutely and completely."
Morrison Hall, the organization's headquarters
The staff of the institute in 1953. Second director Paul Gebhard is seated on the upper steps, second from left
Translation of German and French sources underway in the institute's library, 1953
Director C. Sue Carter (pictured 2008)
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 as well as internationally.
Kinsey in Frankfurt, November 1955
Oak-apple galls induced by Atrusca brevipennata, one of the wasp species first described by Kinsey
Kinsey (center) with staff of the Institute for Sexual Research, later renamed the Kinsey Institute
Alfred Kinsey on the cover of Time in 1953
