The pair formed a bond, and Kinsey offered the cash-strapped Martin work in his garden.
From spring 1939, he was assisting Kinsey with tabulation of his sexual history surveys.
[1] In 1960 he resigned from the Institute for Sex Research to pursue his doctoral degree, receiving his Ph.D. (in social relations) from Johns Hopkins University in 1966.
From 1966 until 1989, he conducted research, specializing in gerontology and sociology at the Francis Scott Key Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland.
In May 1942, Martin married his girlfriend, Alice, in the garden of the Kinseys' house.