Dr. Kinsey interest in human sexuality began when students petitioned the university to offer a noncredit course on marriage.Dr. Kinsey coordinated the course and presented lectures on the biological dimensions of sex and marriage. In preparing for his lectures in what quickly became a very popular course, he discovered that little survey research was available on human sexuality.Dr. Kinsey gathered data from students in his classes, then from other students and faculty, and later from people whom he could persuade to be interviewed. He interviewed people in other cities, thereby adding people from other social classes to his resreach.
Dr. Kinsey obtained a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. He assembled a research