Introduction

Abstract

In 1948, Alfred Kinsey and his research associates published one of the most culturally influential scientific treatises on human sexuality to date. The work, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, was immediately controversial because the findings challenged conventional wisdom about human sexuality; for example, the presumption that everyone was heterosexual. Kinsey showed that 4% of men were exclusively homosexual since adolescence (Kinsey et al. 1948). However, he also showed that sexuality was not a binary category, writing, “The living world is a continuum…The sooner we learn this concerning human sexual behavior the sooner we shall reach a sound understanding of the realities of sex” (p. 639).