I am off to Bloomington in South-Central Indiana, further on the trail of Gershon Legman, social critic, sex researcher, writer and folklorist. In the 1940s, before his exile in France, Legman worked ...

Parents who feel embattled by the envelope-pushing entertainment industry and "non-judgmental" sex education in the schools may not realize it, but the source of their frustration has a name: Alfred ...

Alfred Kinsey grew up in a world where sex education, such as it was, focused on abstention. Masturbation was held to be sinful, a sickness with the power to erode one's physical health and moral ...

Few scientific publications have made the public splash of Alfred Kinsey's post-World War II volumes on human sexuality. Though issued by a medical publishing house and packaged in the sober style of ...