In Search of the Kinsey Institute

february 3, 2003  08:43 am
In Search of the Kinsey Institute
Despite its undisputed status as one of the world’s preeminent centers for sex research, the Kinsey Institute is not an easy place to find. NUVO's Summer Wood became lost on Indiana University’s sprawling Bloomington campus on her way to visit the institute, and few of the students admitted to knowing of the institute’s existence, let alone its location. Several young men mumbled red-faced excuses of “I don’t know anything about that place” before a biology student proved willing to drop her off outside the institute’s unsigned entrance. The student did say, however, that she didn’t really agree with “the kind of work that goes on there.”