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  • adjective Of or pertaining to Alfred Charles Kinsey (1894–1956), American biologist and sexologist.

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Kinsey +‎ -an

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    Hetracil, for Real This Time 2007

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