Alfred Kinsey

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

"There is an honesty in science which leads to a certain acceptance of reality. There are some who, finding the ocean an impediment to the pursuit of their designs, try to ignore its existence. If they are unable to ignore it because of its size, they try to legislate it out of existence, or try to dry it up with a sponge. They insist that the latter operation would be possible if enough sponges were available, and if enough persons would wield them. There is no ocean of greater magnitude than the sexual function, and there are those who believe that we would do better if we ignored its existence, that we should not try to understand its material origins, and that if we sufficiently ignore it and mop at the flood of sexual activity with new laws, heavier penalties, more pronouncements, and greater intolerances, we may ultimately eliminate the reality."

- Happy Birthday Alfred Kinsey, born 23 June 1894.

American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and pioneering sexologist best known for "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" (1948) and "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" (1953), also known as the Kinsey Reports. His research on human sexuality, foundational to the field of sexology, controversial in the 1940s and 1950s, has profoundly influenced social and cultural values in the U.S. and internationally.