Editing Alfred Kinsey (section)

== Personal life ==
[[File:First Street 1320, Kinsey House, Vinegar Hill HD.jpg|thumb|Kinsey's home in Bloomington]]
Kinsey, an atheist,<ref name="wetzstein">{{Cite news|last=Wetzstein|first=Cheryl|date=2004-09-08|title='Kinsey' critics ready|url=https://rsvpamerica.org/media/documents/protecting_women_and_children/'Kinsey'%20critics%20ready_Cheryl%20Wetzstein_Sept%208,%202004_The%20Washington%20Times.pdf|newspaper=[[wikipedia:The Washington Times|The Washington Times]]|format=PDF|access-date=2007-02-02|df=mdy-all|quote=Kinsey was also shown to be an atheist who loathed religion and its constraints on sex.}}</ref> married Clara McMillen in 1921. Their marriage ceremony, like his college graduation, was  avoided by Alfred Sr. The couple had four children. Their first son, Donald, born in 1922, died from the acute complications of juvenile diabetes in 1927, just before his fifth birthday. Their first daughter, Anne, was born in 1924, followed by Joan in 1925, and then by their second son Bruce in 1928.

Kinsey was bisexual<ref>{{cite book|author=Baumgardner, Jennifer |title=Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6hw1X-f6L8kC&pg=PA48|date=2008|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-53108-9|pages=48–}}</ref> and, as a young man, would punish himself for having homoerotic feelings.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/11/02/reviews/971102.02rhodest.html|title=Father of the Sexual Revolution|newspaper=New York Times|date=November 2, 1997}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/alfreds-brush-with-pleasure/157174.article|title=Alfred's brush with pleasure|publisher=Times Higher Education Supplement|date=November 17, 1997}}</ref><ref name="Jones6">{{cite book|title=Alfred C. Kinsey: A Life|page=610|author=James H. Jones|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=2004|isbn=0393327248}}</ref> He and his wife agreed that both could have sex with other people as well as with each other. Kinsey had sex with other men, including his student Clyde Martin.<ref>{{cite book|author=Ley, David J. |title=Insatiable Wives: Women Who Stray and the Men Who Love Them|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tctxQzAKdJgC&pg=PA59|date= 2009|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-1-4422-0032-6|pages=59–}}</ref>

Kinsey designed his own house, which was built in the Vinegar Hill neighborhood of Bloomington, Indiana, at 1320 First Street. There he practiced his deep interest in gardening.<ref>Indiana Historic Sites and Structures Inventory.  ''City of Bloomington Interim Report''. Bloomington: City of Bloomington, 2004-04, 90.</ref>

Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. The cause of his death was reported to be a heart ailment and pneumonia.<ref name = "APobit">{{cite news|url=http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/kinsey.html|title=Dr. Kinsey is Dead; Sex Researcher, 62|work=New York Times|date=August 26, 1956}}</ref> The ''New York Times'' ran the following editorial on August 27, 1956:

{{quote|The untimely death of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey takes from the American scene an important and valuable, as well as controversial, figure. Whatever may have been the reaction to his findings—and to the unscrupulous use of some of them—the fact remains that he was first, last, and always a scientist. In the long run, it is probable that the values of his contribution to contemporary thought will lie much less in what he found out than in the method he used and his way of applying it. Any sort of scientific approach to the problems of sex is difficult because the field is so deeply overlaid with such things as moral precept, taboo, individual and group training, and long-established behavior patterns. Some of these may be good in themselves, but they are no help to the scientific and empirical method of getting at the truth. Dr. Kinsey cut through this overlay with detachment and precision. His work was conscientious and comprehensive. Naturally, it will receive a serious setback with his death. Let us earnestly hope that the scientific spirit that inspired it will not be similarly impaired.<ref>Quoted in Pomeroy (1972).</ref><ref name = "New York Times editorial">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/08/27/archives/dr-kinsey.html?ref=alfredckinsey|title=Dr. Kinsey|work=New York Times|date=August 27, 1956}}</ref>}}

Kinsey was buried at Rose Hill Cemetery in Bloomington, Indiana.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Walk Through the Rose Hill Cemetery: Historic Tour Guide No. 12 |url=https://bloomington.in.gov/media/media/application/pdf/5409.pdf |website=City of Bloomington, Indiana |access-date=April 14, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170212055547/https://bloomington.in.gov/media/media/application/pdf/5409.pdf |archive-date=February 12, 2017  }}</ref><ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25719-25720). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref>