Hearts aflutter over Kinsey
Sept. 2, 1949: Famed biologist Alfred Kinsey arrived in Los Angeles to interview women, The Times announced under the headline, “Hollywood’s Aflutter!”
“The noted author of ‘Sex Behavior in the Human Male’ immediately was closeted in his Biltmore suite,” the newspaper noted, “with persons whom he had arranged to meet in connection with his forthcoming report, ‘Sex Behavior in the Human Female.’
“The man who made sex a household and headline word is listed as a zoologist -- not a sociologist,” The Times said.
“He is particularly proud of 1,000 pages of technical research he did on gall wasps. He explains that gall wasps are insects found on oak trees.”
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