‘Dear Dr Kinsey, I have been reading about your book … and I must say that it is disappointing.’ Thus begins one critique of famous biologist and social scientist Alfred Kinsey, penned in 1953 by a woman living in Ontario, Canada. Like thousands of others, she had written to the world-famous doctor following the publication of one of his infamous reports on human sexuality. This particular writer disliked Kinsey (she accuses him of being ‘oversexed’ and complicit in American’s quest for ‘filthy lucre’), but she also grasped the underlying methodology of his project—namely that humans should be studied using the same dispassionate taxonomies applied to the animal world. Kinsey, the entomologist turned...

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“亲爱的K博士”：阿尔弗雷德·金西（Alfred Kinsey）的英国世界通讯，1948–58年的流动性，性和自我

“亲爱的金西博士，我一直在读你的书……我必须说这令人失望。” 这样一来，对著名生物学家和社会科学家阿尔弗雷德·金西（Alfred Kinsey）的评论就开始了，该评论是1953年由居住在加拿大安大略省的一名妇女撰写的。像成千上万的其他人一样，在他关于人类性行为的臭名昭著的报告之一出版之后，她也给世界著名的医生写了信。这位特别的作家不喜欢金西（她指责他“过性”，并且参与了美国人对“肮脏的暴食”的追求），但是她也掌握了他的研究项目的基本方法，即应该对人类进行同样的研究。动物界。昆虫学家金西（Kinsey）转身...