The Inner Circle

'You have to understand that back then sex and sexuality simply weren't discussed anywhere, in any forum - and certainly not in a public lecture hall in a college campus.' It is 1939. In the campus of Indiana University, the sexual revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is lecturing on human sexual behaviour with an explicitness that sends ripples of shock and yearning through his audience. John Milk is one of the many...
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'You have to understand that back then sex and sexuality simply weren't discussed anywhere, in any forum - and certainly not in a public lecture hall in a college campus.'

It is 1939. In the campus of Indiana University, the sexual revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is lecturing on human sexual behaviour with an explicitness that sends ripples of shock and yearning through his audience.

John Milk is one of the many students who are aflamed. Soon he becomes Kinsey's assistant, helping Prok (as Kinsey is known to friends) document the sex lives of countless Americans - the research of which will ultimately lead to the famous Kinsey Report.

But Prok teaches him more than the art of objective inquiry, and Milk finds himself initiated into his mentor's sexual inner circle - a circle he is never able to break out of, even after his marriage and the birth of his son.

Outrageous, compelling, superbly written, The Inner Circle captures the moment when American prudery met the man who elevated human sexuality to its place among the behavioural sciences. It is another masterpiece from one of America's finest writers.