Hutton Honors College
— The Science and Politics of Sex Research
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The Science and Politics of Sex Research—Pizza discussion supper with Dr. Julia Heiman, director of the IU Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction.
This is a small-group program and requires participants to sign up in advance. Participants must be IU undergraduates and must sign up using the established procedures. For complete sign-up procedures, click here.Sex was among the most controversial topics to research in the 1940s, when the Kinsey Institute was founded at Indiana University-as it is today, more than a half-century later. The institute was named for Alfred C. Kinsey, a zoologist and its first director, whose groundbreaking studies on human sexual behavior continue to draw attacks from groups concerned by what they describe as the sexualizing of American culture and society, especially its young people. The recent publication of two biographies and a novel, and the release of the film Kinsey have raised again central questions. What are we better off knowing, and what are we better off not knowing about sex? The supper provides an opportunity to talk with Julia Heiman, a leading researcher and the new director of the institute, about the challenges of researching a topic that generates so many questions and so many passionate adversaries. In addition to her role as director, Dr. Heiman is a professor of psychology on the IU Bloomington campus and of psychiatry in the School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Join us for this discussion and share your opinions! This program is co-sponsored by the Hutton Honors College and the Wells Scholars Program. Visit the Kinsey
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