Kinsey Confidential: The Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service

Kinsey Confidential is a sexuality information service designed by The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction to meet the sexual health information needs of students and college-age adults with accessible, topical information based on current scientific knowledge.   This site contains articles on a variety of sex information topics and questions and answers from our weekly student newspaper column, The Kinsey Confidential.

Originally called The Kinsey Institute Sexuality Information Service for Students (KISISS), and designed for Indiana University students, faculty and staff, it is sponsored by the Mary B. Orvis Fund, Indiana University School of Medicine. Jennifer Bass, Director of Communications for The Kinsey Institute, developed the site in 1999. The current site was designed by Rob Dietz and Steven Shyu.  Dr. Debby Herbenick provides the answers to Kinsey Confidential. Other content has come from Marie Metelnick and Emily Nagoski, and our student interns. The photograph in the header image at the top of this website is by Herbert Ascherman Jr.

For further information on publishing Kinsey Confidential in your student newspaper, contact us at kincon at indiana dot edu.

Content

The mission of Kinsey Confidential is to disseminate accurate, research-based information geared towards students.

Links

Some of the links may have explicit discussion of sexual topics, literary, visual, and other forms of erotic art. We are not responsible for the content of any site other than this one. Inclusion of a site does not indicate endorsement by Kinsey Confidential or The Kinsey Institute.  We will review requests to include links.

Privacy

Any information submitted to Kinsey Confidential is kept private. We will not give anyone your email address or other information without your explicit permission. Your information will never be posted on the site without your explicit permission. When you submit a question, your email address is deleted from our system after we answer your question.

Kinsey Confidential Q&A

Kinsey Confidential is an information service, not a counseling service.  Submitting a question to Kinsey Confidential is not the same as, and does not replace, consultation with a medical provider or counselling professional.

We strive to be non-judgmental and adhere to strict confidentiality. Once we have replied to your question, your email address and other identifiers will be deleted. Kinsey Confidential reserves the right not to respond to questions we feel are abusive, crude or fictional.

Contact kincon at indiana dot edu about publishing the Kinsey Confidential column in your college newspaper.