kinsey's first obsession

Alfred Kinsey is best known for the Kinsey Report on Human Sexuality, an in-depth survey of thousands of people and their sexual expressions.  This report gave us the famous Kinsey scale, which recognizes that people are not always clearly heterosexual (o) or homosexual (6) but might be somewhere in between (a 2, or a 3 or a four).

But first of all, Kinsey was an entomologist and became an authority on gall wasps.  His study of gall wasps was the template he then applied to studying humans:  t...