Alfred Kinsey Quotes

#1. The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform.

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#2. The male's difficulties in his sexual relations after marriage include a lack of facility, of ease, or of suavity in establishing rapport in a sexual situation.

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#3. The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.

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#4. We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

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#5. Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.

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#6. Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.

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#7. Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

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#8. Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

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#9. There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse, or the expression of some other sort of psychologic disturbance.

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#10. The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

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#11. Art alone develops weaklings, science alone, monsters. Somewhere, somehow, we must combine the two.

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