Julia Shaw

And he ended up finding, and this is one of the big findings in this book that he published called Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a bestseller for an entire year.

He sold out auditoriums.

They had to sometimes add the room next to the room he was in because there was so much desire to go to his lectures about sex that they had to connect radios to other halls.

To give people enough space to sit down.

He was basically a rock star.

And again, I think this challenges a misconception we have about sexuality.

That we think of it as this sort of woke thing now.

That the rainbow flag and all this stuff is sort of this modern invention almost.

But this is the 40s.

This was happening.

People were going to these talks.

People were having these conversations.

And he created something called the Kinsey Scale.

And so the Kinsey scale is from zero to six.

And he found that it was not useful to apply a binary to people's sexual desires and sexual orientation.

It was more useful to put them on a continuum because most people were not exclusively homosexual or exclusively heterosexual.

Most people were somewhere in between.

And so zero was exclusively heterosexual tendencies and six was exclusively homosexual.

And he would place people based on all the things they told him somewhere on the scale.

And about half of men were somewhere in the middle, not exclusively either, and about a quarter of women.