We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.
Alfred KinseyThe heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
Alfred KinseyIt is ordinarily said that criminal law is designed to protect property and to protect persons, and if society's only interest in controlling sex behavior were to protect persons, then the criminal codes concerned with assault and battery should provide adequate protection. The fact that there is a body of sex laws which is apart from the laws protecting persons is evidence of their distinct function, namely that of protecting custom.
Alfred KinseyMales do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.
Alfred KinseyOnly the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeonholes.
Alfred KinseyThe very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species.
Alfred Kinsey