ABSTRACT
Although for many Americans “Kinsey” is the name that conjures the first scientific exploration of human sexuality, scientists from various disciplines had long been studying sex by the time Kinsey’s work emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. While sexology, the scientific discipline with which Kinsey is associated, developed in the nineteenth century, anatomists and medical scientists were deeply interested in sex dating back to the ancient world; indeed, some of their conclusions may be surprising to a modern reader.
