What’s a normal sex life, anyway? The Kinsey Institute has spent 75 years figuring out the answer to that question—and many others
“How old were you the first time you had sexual intercourse?”“In warm weather, how often do you sleep nude?”“Do you have sexual dreams?The Kinsey Institute at Indiana University has been studying human sexuality and asking questions such as these for 75 years.
Armed with a list of roughly 350 questions, Dr. Kinsey and other researchers criss-crossed the country interviewing thousands of Americans about their sex lives. This body of research formed the basis for two landmark books: “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” published in 1948, and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,” published five years later.
As the Kinsey Institute celebrates its 75th anniversary this week, I looked at a few of the top discoveries its researchers have made about our sex lives.Dr. Kinsey’s work showed that people’s sex lives were a great deal more varied than previously thought. Prior to his research, married heterosexual sex about once a week in the missionary position was widely viewed as a normal, healthy sex life.
In the 1990s, Kinsey researchers learned that arousal is governed by two biological systems, not one. Our excitation system, or gas pedal, revs us up, and an inhibition system, or brake pedal, slows us down. These systems—which researchers refer to as the Dual Control Model of Sexual Response—each have their own triggers and work independently. Some things, like kissing, turn us on. Others might turn us off .
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