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- adjective Of or pertaining to Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894–1956),
American biologist andsexologist .
Etymologies
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Kinsey + -an
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Examples
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Note here that, first, Wotan has just recently delivered an impassioned defense of the true love of siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde. arguing for a pretty robustly Kinseyan tolerance of an incestuous relationship.
Incest by Proxy 2005
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On the other hand, and perhaps I’m being excessively sanguine here, it could also have the result of eliminating the idea of sexual identity — a fixed, static “orientation” — altogether, in favor of a more protean, Kinseyan conception of sexuality.
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