World’s Largest Collection?

Today The Kinsey Institute was featured in the Weekend section of the Indiana Daily Student. An "IU Mythbusters" article sheds light on some of IU's biggest campus myths. Included is the myth that The Kinsey Institute has the world’s biggest "porn" collection. When I tell someone I’m studying with The Kinsey Institute, I generally have a lot of questions thrown my way…

The Truth About Female Desire - BBC TV show features Kinsey Institute scientists

The Truth About Female Desire is a four part UK television (Channel 4) series broadcast in 2005. Eight women joined Kinsey Institute researchers to study the factors behind sexual desire.

Would you say you “had sex” if…?

Kinsey Institute Researcher Dr. Stephanie Sanders has an online study to investigate how people use the term "had sex" and some of the factors that may affect people's attitudes about this. The study is open to men and women over the age of 18. See this and other Kinsey Institute studies on The Kinsey Institute […]

Patient Advocate Alice Dreger Speaks at Kinsey Institute on History of “Intersex”

Dr. Alice Dreger, Associate Professor in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program at Northwestern Universty and a prolific speaker and writer on the politics of science, medicine, and anatomy, spoke recently at The Kinsey Institute on the history and evolution of the term "intersex," and its alternatives.
In her talk, Dr. Dreger explored how the […]

One Size Doesn’t Fit All!

Read the results of an IU study on size-to-fit condoms at the IU Living Well webpage >>

Study Finds Abstinence-Only Sex Ed Not Effective

A research study examining results of 13 abstinence-only education programs involving 15,940 young people found that abstinence-only programs had "no significant effect" in increasing or decreasing risky behavior including delaying sexual initiation, reducing unprotected sex, or in preventing pregnancy. Read More »