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When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

And Kinsey thought that anybody who defined themselves based on their sexual acts was limiting themselves.

Kinsey himself collected absolutely everything.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Kinsey thought that Freud in his own way was as dangerous as the Catholic Church.

What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.

One of the people that became a major source was Clarence Tripp who worked with Kinsey.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.