PSY 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Broad City, Sexual Orientation, Amygdala
Document Summary
Founded kinsey insitute for research in sex, gender and reproducion in 1947. Took over marriage and family class but noiced lack of data so he wanted to collect his own. He interviewed his students but people said it was inappropriate so he was given choice of coninue research or teach class but not both. Interviewed 18,000 people with a team 1 on 1 across the country: he himself interviewed 9,000 people. 1948 sexual behavior in the human male bestseller: 69% of ppl he interviewed had had sex with a prositute at least once, 2012 it was 9%percentages going down. Kinsey scale: 0 is exclusively heterosexual and 6 is exclusively homosexual and x for asexual but is a coninuum, males. 10% of american males surveyed were more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years : females. 7% (age 20-35) and 4% previously married females (20-35) ranked 3. 2 to 6% (age 20-35) more or less exclusively homosexual.
