Indiana blocks world’s top sex research center from state funds: ‘a scary moment for academic freedom’

What happens to Kinsey Institute may signal if conservative US lawmakers can dictate the bounds of research on sexuality

The future of the Kinsey Institute, the world's premier sex research center, is in limbo.

Last April, lawmakers in Indiana's Republican-dominated state legislature voted to block the Kinsey Institute from receiving any state funds through Indiana University (IU), which houses the institute. Its researchers have spent the months since scrambling to figure out what this means for their work - and Indiana University, they say, has largely left them out of the discussion.