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“It is amazing to observe how many psychologists and psychiatrists have accepted this sort of propaganda, and have come to believe that homosexual males and females are discretely different from persons who respond to natural stimuli. Instead of using these terms as substantives which stand for persons, or even as adjectives to describe persons, they may better be used to describe the nature of the overt sexual relations, or of the stimuli to which an individual erotically responds.”

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Alfred Kinsey
Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey was an American biologist and sexologist renowned for his groundbreaking research on human sexuality. He founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which is now known as the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Kinsey's extensive interviews and subsequent publications, such as 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male' and 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Female', revolutionized the understanding of sexual behavior in the United States. more

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