An account of a young man progressing from handyman to assistant to bed fellow of Dr Kinsey, he of the startling sexual report of the 50s and recent subject of the film, Kinsey. How much is factual is not stated. Dr Kinsey comes over as a fanatical worker dominating all those around him and the whole work is vaguely porny, highly readable and good fun.
A dazzlingly written and wickedly sexy read from one of the giants of American contemporary fictions; 'Boyle just gets better and better' (Daily Mail) In 1939, on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry. Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his ‘inner circle' of researchers, Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited ...