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- Title
Keying Desire: Alfred Kinsey's Use of Punched-Card Machines for Sex Research.
- Authors
DRUCKER, DONNA J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on American biologist and professor at Indiana University (IU) Alfred Kinsey and his use of punched-card machines in his studies of human sexuality. The author explores the role of technology and mass-produced data organized by the punched-card machines in the analysis and classification of sexual knowledge. She discusses the heterosexual-homosexual scale known as the Kinsey Scale, explores how his sex research provided groundwork for future gay rights movements, and analyzes how scientific human sex research impacted homosexuals sexual identity.
- Subjects
UNITED States; KINSEY, Alfred C., 1894-1956; PUNCHED card systems in research; HUMAN sexuality; KINSEY Scale; GAY rights; SEXUAL orientation identity; HISTORY &; technology; HOMOSEXUALITY; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2013, Vol 22, Issue 1, p105
- ISSN
1043-4070
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7560/JHS22105