"Alfred Kinsey was this century's first scientifically reputable and most influential researcher into sex. His Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (The Kinsey Report), published in 1948, was an explosive bestseller, followed in 1953 by his even more radical statistics on female sexuality - both based on over 18,000 case histories." "But Kinsey's exploration went much further than that. Bisexual, he experimented with many of the behaviours he was hearing about: and his wife and close colleagues experimented too." "This biography describes Kinsey's strict Methodist upbringing, his love of minute observation which he applied first to academic entomology and then to human sexuality, and the obsessive work ethic that contributed to his death." "Kinsey remains, especially in America, a controversial figure. Gathorne-Hardy has interviewed in depth his remaining family, his close colleagues, friends, lovers. He reveals, in this subtle, often witty, penetrating study, not just a series of new revelations, but whole new aspects of this complex, difficult, contradictory, heroic, obsessive and ultimately sympathetic man."--BOOK JACKET.

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