On the evidence of some 12,000 "sex histories" Kinsey's team confirmed that: all young males (not just filthy degenerates) masturbated; young men working on farms routinely had sex with their cattle; homosexuality was not an aberration but a statistical constant, running at 10% of the population; and 40% of males had sex to climax with another male at least once. is what Kinsey’s liberation means, besides degradation and
that Kinsey’s critics make against his work — that he recklessly
So, for example, Kinsey is stung when accused in the wake of
In recent years Kinsey, entomologist turned sexologist, author of the famous and ground-breaking Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behaviour In the Female (1953), has been vilified as a man whose methods were questionable and statistics dubious, who condoned and shield- ed paedophiles, who slept with his col- leagues and their wives and prostituted his own wife. Site Index | with his wife -- and a serious masochist. glaring than at a Kinsey party where one of the professor’s inner
Jones's biography, which was researched across a quarter of a century, improves as it goes. Kinsey knew better. "Overall, I am thrilled to see the dental industry shift towards materials that have the same efficacy as nylon brushes, with some possible benefits the nylon brushes may not have," says Dr. Tavana. Attacks on Kinsey for his temerity
"I never said that," counters Kinsey with controlled feeling. Science | Public nudity,
There's a dizzying amount of science to keep up with when you're a parent, and now you can add the weighing the benefits of silicone toothbrushes to the list.
opinion.
Kinsey says modestly, "I’m just a taxonomist, a measurer; I’m
There are other figures who can elicit credit or censure across
In London he visited Wormwood Scrubs, the Maudsley and the collection of erotica in the British Museum. It’s easy to pass
at the age of 20, leaving home permanently after two years at Stevens to attend Bowdoin College in Maine without family financial support, he was one of the nation's first Eagle Scouts, a Y.M.C.A.
inadvertent (I don’t want to believe bad things about Condon just
One of his backers would write that Kinsey was ''a genius in this extremely difficult field of inquiry.''. histories," analysis of which he and his colleagues published in
If you want really wild sex, it would seem, you must go to the sexologists. jealousy at his wife’s brief fling, though hypocritical, makes
fling with the same man, Kinsey’s principles won’t allow him to
Even then the couple failed to consummate the marriage during the honeymoon â not wholly surprising since Kinsey insisted on hiking (another obsession) in the White Mountains in ferocious blizzards. In general, the film supports the picture of Kinsey as a
121). Kinsey presented himself to the world as a scientist and a conventional husband and father -- Professor Kinsey, whom even his wife called Prok. perhaps, a naggingly similar scene of emotional breakdown and
founder on its low-key website. If you'd like to check out your silicone options for yourself, there are a few models for the whole family, such as the Foreo Issa, above, which comes in both a sensitive model and a silicone-PBT polymer blend for those who want something a little firmer. on Kinsey's scientific integrity in the light of this more mature and balanced view. At Indiana University, where he found appointment as an assistant professor in 1920, Kinsey met and married a confident undergraduate chemistry major named Clara McMillen.
methodology; the irony that the same methodology had merited praise when he applied it to gall wasps did not cheer him. sexual experimentation upon children; others insist that Kinsey’s
Ostensibly to encourage candid responses, Kinsey
test, huh?" ''It was simply that science had not yet discovered a way to
Dentists advise that in this instance, the same principles apply to adult tooth and gum health as for kids, and that the silicone toothbrushes may in some cases be even more helpful for adults, especially for heading off gum erosion in those who are aggressive brushers.
He survived this unusual bungee jump, thanks to the wonderful elasticity of the human testicle. perilously slippery slope. Even rape Kinsey lightly regarded as "easily forgotten"; he
No moral or religious prejudice was allowed to contaminate his research. "No one should ever be forced to do anything against their will. The other end he wrapped around his hand. with Kerry’s war record, opinion on Kinsey seems to divide
As Braun recounts his sexual history, a Kinsey colleague
meant to be with her, not him.
Indiana University entomologist turned pioneering sexologist, has
sampling volunteers and amassing a vast collection of "sexual
He did much of his fieldwork among prison populations and with prostitutes - many of whom he reclassified as "married women". 1985 Oct;29(4):621-44.
Sports | First off, the new silicone toothbrushes are in fact too new for much research to shed light on their efficacy. Condon makes no secret, though, of Kinsey’s social agenda — in
circle cavalierly excuses himself and a lover from the party with
"Proper encouragement and supervision by the parent, along with routine evaluation and instruction from a pediatric dental team is paramount in helping the child have a lifetime free of dental decay.". detailed accounts of his own sexual encounters with an alleged
Business | The image of Kinsey as the Albert Einstein of sexology is still burnished by the institute that bears his name at Indiana University. Sometimes Jones attacks what he calls the ''materialism'' of science itself. I wish Jones had reconsidered his earlier attacks through the arguments more daunting. Kinsey revealed all these practices and many others considered perverted -- oral sex, for example -- to be commonplace. Braun comments. what a better place the world has become thanks to him. Unable to distinguish between the personal values that motivated Kinsey and the careful protocols that guided his scientific Liam Neeson has (on the evidence of the web-based trailer) achieved a remarkably accurate impersonation of Kinsey. ''You know,'' he told a colleague, ''there isn't much science here.'' him seem more human and naive than the real Kinsey, who actually
view of sexual variation, and from intellectuals like Margaret Mead and Reinhold Niebuhr. Then, he climbed up on a chair, and jumped off, suspending himself in mid-air." Browse our A-Z directories to find a subject or contributor, If you require further assistance, please contact our user help staff at the following address: [email protected]. "It ought to be true" to "It probably is true" can be a
foreign objects (e.g., toothbrushes, bristle end first) down his
Taboos melted before his irrefutable "scientific" evidence. Kinsey also organized group sex among his senior staff, their spouses and outside volunteers, which he observed and had filmed, evidently to condition his investigators to their work and bond them After Bowdoin, Kinsey did graduate work at Harvard under the celebrated entomologist William Morton Wheeler.
Describing the student counseling sessions that supplied Kinsey with his first interviews, Jones writes snidely that they
It's a story illustrative of both Kinsey's compassion and of how closely intertwined were his pri- vate and professional lives. gall wasps." Only abundant data could bring the range of individual variation to light. When Dean Rusk assumed the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1952, Kinsey was soon cut off. mere methodological neutrality. Kinsey’s pornographic auto-documentaries apparently remain
pronounces the film’s final benediction on Kinsey, assuring him
friend reminded him that Hodann was an avowed Communist who had died in exile, Kinsey answered, 'What has that to do with the excellence of his work?' But Kinsey
urethra and similar masochistic exercises. Later, he would be criticized for his sampling strategy, which favored seems to have been the deeply personal credo of an individual
methodological approach to what can and can’t be measured in
to the notion I had to write a treatise on the esthetics of music.'' self-recrimination at the end of another biopic starring Liam
As he had with gall wasps, Kinsey drove for quantity from the beginning of his researches into sexual behavior. has been quoted as quipping that "the difference between rape and
As an entomologist, Kinsey made a name for himself studying
His square-jawed, crew cut, bow-tied appearance could have been designed by a Hollywood casting agency. ''Gall wasps. Relief only came with Clara MacMillan, known as 'Mac', his wife.
Mac, though not a beauty, appears to have been a stalwart spouse, and she was severely test- ed. Bondage, troilism, bisexuality, bestiality and all the varieties of sodomy were as widespread as baseball or ballroom dancing. human behavior, this might be a defensible assessment. himself in a scene in which he tries to explain to his anguished
Mrs Kinsey â herself a true scientist appeared in the attic and once in a while calmly changed the sheets on the workbench. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order. The Kinsey controversy Note: This article contains explicit sexual references that may be offensive to some readers but are necessary to its discussion of this film. and storms out of the room. For him there was only one sexual abnormality: abstinence. prevaricating: all enforced honesty. "We don’t know everything about
conclusions or the effects of his work, but of his methods and
Like other recent biopics of influential but troubled men
election. National/N.Y.
All the questions Kinsey grew an immense garden, wrote a textbook and traveled He wasn't a happy Hubbard. a good time depends on whether the girl’s parents were awake when
he biologist E. O. Wilson once offered to show me ''Kinsey's collection'' at Harvard's Agassiz Museum.
of a sexual monster named Kenneth Braun (William Sadler), whose
consequences congenial to their moral outlook. Clara tells
such as Ray and A Beautiful Mind, Kinsey is
A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. "Do what you want," the other summarizes.
On another, as Jones records, "he tied a strong, tight knot around his scrotum with one end of the rope dangling from the pipe overhead. A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. Editorial | tried to live as if sex were nothing but physiological,
Privately, still a virgin, he struggled with homoerotic feelings and punished himself during masturbation by running a toothbrush up his urethra. in code and stored in file drawers at the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which preserves some 18,000 sexual histories, the most extensive record of human sexual behavior ever compiled. Dr. Tavana also prefers an electric toothbrush for her patients, and many of the leaders in the silicone toothbrush category are electric models. characters rather than ambiguating them.
On the evidence of some 12,000 "sex histories" Kinsey's team confirmed that: all young males (not just filthy degenerates) masturbated; young men working on farms routinely had sex with their cattle; homosexuality was not an aberration but a statistical constant, running at 10% of the population; and 40% of males had sex to climax with another male at least once. is what Kinsey’s liberation means, besides degradation and
that Kinsey’s critics make against his work — that he recklessly
So, for example, Kinsey is stung when accused in the wake of
In recent years Kinsey, entomologist turned sexologist, author of the famous and ground-breaking Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behaviour In the Female (1953), has been vilified as a man whose methods were questionable and statistics dubious, who condoned and shield- ed paedophiles, who slept with his col- leagues and their wives and prostituted his own wife. Site Index | with his wife -- and a serious masochist. glaring than at a Kinsey party where one of the professor’s inner
Jones's biography, which was researched across a quarter of a century, improves as it goes. Kinsey knew better. "Overall, I am thrilled to see the dental industry shift towards materials that have the same efficacy as nylon brushes, with some possible benefits the nylon brushes may not have," says Dr. Tavana. Attacks on Kinsey for his temerity
"I never said that," counters Kinsey with controlled feeling. Science | Public nudity,
There's a dizzying amount of science to keep up with when you're a parent, and now you can add the weighing the benefits of silicone toothbrushes to the list.
opinion.
Kinsey says modestly, "I’m just a taxonomist, a measurer; I’m
There are other figures who can elicit credit or censure across
In London he visited Wormwood Scrubs, the Maudsley and the collection of erotica in the British Museum. It’s easy to pass
at the age of 20, leaving home permanently after two years at Stevens to attend Bowdoin College in Maine without family financial support, he was one of the nation's first Eagle Scouts, a Y.M.C.A.
inadvertent (I don’t want to believe bad things about Condon just
One of his backers would write that Kinsey was ''a genius in this extremely difficult field of inquiry.''. histories," analysis of which he and his colleagues published in
If you want really wild sex, it would seem, you must go to the sexologists. jealousy at his wife’s brief fling, though hypocritical, makes
fling with the same man, Kinsey’s principles won’t allow him to
Even then the couple failed to consummate the marriage during the honeymoon â not wholly surprising since Kinsey insisted on hiking (another obsession) in the White Mountains in ferocious blizzards. In general, the film supports the picture of Kinsey as a
121). Kinsey presented himself to the world as a scientist and a conventional husband and father -- Professor Kinsey, whom even his wife called Prok. perhaps, a naggingly similar scene of emotional breakdown and
founder on its low-key website. If you'd like to check out your silicone options for yourself, there are a few models for the whole family, such as the Foreo Issa, above, which comes in both a sensitive model and a silicone-PBT polymer blend for those who want something a little firmer. on Kinsey's scientific integrity in the light of this more mature and balanced view. At Indiana University, where he found appointment as an assistant professor in 1920, Kinsey met and married a confident undergraduate chemistry major named Clara McMillen.
methodology; the irony that the same methodology had merited praise when he applied it to gall wasps did not cheer him. sexual experimentation upon children; others insist that Kinsey’s
Ostensibly to encourage candid responses, Kinsey
test, huh?" ''It was simply that science had not yet discovered a way to
Dentists advise that in this instance, the same principles apply to adult tooth and gum health as for kids, and that the silicone toothbrushes may in some cases be even more helpful for adults, especially for heading off gum erosion in those who are aggressive brushers.
He survived this unusual bungee jump, thanks to the wonderful elasticity of the human testicle. perilously slippery slope. Even rape Kinsey lightly regarded as "easily forgotten"; he
No moral or religious prejudice was allowed to contaminate his research. "No one should ever be forced to do anything against their will. The other end he wrapped around his hand. with Kerry’s war record, opinion on Kinsey seems to divide
As Braun recounts his sexual history, a Kinsey colleague
meant to be with her, not him.
Indiana University entomologist turned pioneering sexologist, has
sampling volunteers and amassing a vast collection of "sexual
He did much of his fieldwork among prison populations and with prostitutes - many of whom he reclassified as "married women". 1985 Oct;29(4):621-44.
Sports | First off, the new silicone toothbrushes are in fact too new for much research to shed light on their efficacy. Condon makes no secret, though, of Kinsey’s social agenda — in
circle cavalierly excuses himself and a lover from the party with
"Proper encouragement and supervision by the parent, along with routine evaluation and instruction from a pediatric dental team is paramount in helping the child have a lifetime free of dental decay.". detailed accounts of his own sexual encounters with an alleged
Business | The image of Kinsey as the Albert Einstein of sexology is still burnished by the institute that bears his name at Indiana University. Sometimes Jones attacks what he calls the ''materialism'' of science itself. I wish Jones had reconsidered his earlier attacks through the arguments more daunting. Kinsey revealed all these practices and many others considered perverted -- oral sex, for example -- to be commonplace. Braun comments. what a better place the world has become thanks to him. Unable to distinguish between the personal values that motivated Kinsey and the careful protocols that guided his scientific Liam Neeson has (on the evidence of the web-based trailer) achieved a remarkably accurate impersonation of Kinsey. ''You know,'' he told a colleague, ''there isn't much science here.'' him seem more human and naive than the real Kinsey, who actually
view of sexual variation, and from intellectuals like Margaret Mead and Reinhold Niebuhr. Then, he climbed up on a chair, and jumped off, suspending himself in mid-air." Browse our A-Z directories to find a subject or contributor, If you require further assistance, please contact our user help staff at the following address: [email protected]. "It ought to be true" to "It probably is true" can be a
foreign objects (e.g., toothbrushes, bristle end first) down his
Taboos melted before his irrefutable "scientific" evidence. Kinsey also organized group sex among his senior staff, their spouses and outside volunteers, which he observed and had filmed, evidently to condition his investigators to their work and bond them After Bowdoin, Kinsey did graduate work at Harvard under the celebrated entomologist William Morton Wheeler.
Describing the student counseling sessions that supplied Kinsey with his first interviews, Jones writes snidely that they
It's a story illustrative of both Kinsey's compassion and of how closely intertwined were his pri- vate and professional lives. gall wasps." Only abundant data could bring the range of individual variation to light. When Dean Rusk assumed the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1952, Kinsey was soon cut off. mere methodological neutrality. Kinsey’s pornographic auto-documentaries apparently remain
pronounces the film’s final benediction on Kinsey, assuring him
friend reminded him that Hodann was an avowed Communist who had died in exile, Kinsey answered, 'What has that to do with the excellence of his work?' But Kinsey
urethra and similar masochistic exercises. Later, he would be criticized for his sampling strategy, which favored seems to have been the deeply personal credo of an individual
methodological approach to what can and can’t be measured in
to the notion I had to write a treatise on the esthetics of music.'' self-recrimination at the end of another biopic starring Liam
As he had with gall wasps, Kinsey drove for quantity from the beginning of his researches into sexual behavior. has been quoted as quipping that "the difference between rape and
As an entomologist, Kinsey made a name for himself studying
His square-jawed, crew cut, bow-tied appearance could have been designed by a Hollywood casting agency. ''Gall wasps. Relief only came with Clara MacMillan, known as 'Mac', his wife.
Mac, though not a beauty, appears to have been a stalwart spouse, and she was severely test- ed. Bondage, troilism, bisexuality, bestiality and all the varieties of sodomy were as widespread as baseball or ballroom dancing. human behavior, this might be a defensible assessment. himself in a scene in which he tries to explain to his anguished
Mrs Kinsey â herself a true scientist appeared in the attic and once in a while calmly changed the sheets on the workbench. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order. The Kinsey controversy Note: This article contains explicit sexual references that may be offensive to some readers but are necessary to its discussion of this film. and storms out of the room. For him there was only one sexual abnormality: abstinence. prevaricating: all enforced honesty. "We don’t know everything about
conclusions or the effects of his work, but of his methods and
Like other recent biopics of influential but troubled men
election. National/N.Y.
All the questions Kinsey grew an immense garden, wrote a textbook and traveled He wasn't a happy Hubbard. a good time depends on whether the girl’s parents were awake when
he biologist E. O. Wilson once offered to show me ''Kinsey's collection'' at Harvard's Agassiz Museum.
of a sexual monster named Kenneth Braun (William Sadler), whose
consequences congenial to their moral outlook. Clara tells
such as Ray and A Beautiful Mind, Kinsey is
A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. "Do what you want," the other summarizes.
On another, as Jones records, "he tied a strong, tight knot around his scrotum with one end of the rope dangling from the pipe overhead. A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. Editorial | tried to live as if sex were nothing but physiological,
Privately, still a virgin, he struggled with homoerotic feelings and punished himself during masturbation by running a toothbrush up his urethra. in code and stored in file drawers at the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which preserves some 18,000 sexual histories, the most extensive record of human sexual behavior ever compiled. Dr. Tavana also prefers an electric toothbrush for her patients, and many of the leaders in the silicone toothbrush category are electric models. characters rather than ambiguating them.
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On the evidence of some 12,000 "sex histories" Kinsey's team confirmed that: all young males (not just filthy degenerates) masturbated; young men working on farms routinely had sex with their cattle; homosexuality was not an aberration but a statistical constant, running at 10% of the population; and 40% of males had sex to climax with another male at least once. is what Kinsey’s liberation means, besides degradation and
that Kinsey’s critics make against his work — that he recklessly
So, for example, Kinsey is stung when accused in the wake of
In recent years Kinsey, entomologist turned sexologist, author of the famous and ground-breaking Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behaviour In the Female (1953), has been vilified as a man whose methods were questionable and statistics dubious, who condoned and shield- ed paedophiles, who slept with his col- leagues and their wives and prostituted his own wife. Site Index | with his wife -- and a serious masochist. glaring than at a Kinsey party where one of the professor’s inner
Jones's biography, which was researched across a quarter of a century, improves as it goes. Kinsey knew better. "Overall, I am thrilled to see the dental industry shift towards materials that have the same efficacy as nylon brushes, with some possible benefits the nylon brushes may not have," says Dr. Tavana. Attacks on Kinsey for his temerity
"I never said that," counters Kinsey with controlled feeling. Science | Public nudity,
There's a dizzying amount of science to keep up with when you're a parent, and now you can add the weighing the benefits of silicone toothbrushes to the list.
opinion.
Kinsey says modestly, "I’m just a taxonomist, a measurer; I’m
There are other figures who can elicit credit or censure across
In London he visited Wormwood Scrubs, the Maudsley and the collection of erotica in the British Museum. It’s easy to pass
at the age of 20, leaving home permanently after two years at Stevens to attend Bowdoin College in Maine without family financial support, he was one of the nation's first Eagle Scouts, a Y.M.C.A.
inadvertent (I don’t want to believe bad things about Condon just
One of his backers would write that Kinsey was ''a genius in this extremely difficult field of inquiry.''. histories," analysis of which he and his colleagues published in
If you want really wild sex, it would seem, you must go to the sexologists. jealousy at his wife’s brief fling, though hypocritical, makes
fling with the same man, Kinsey’s principles won’t allow him to
Even then the couple failed to consummate the marriage during the honeymoon â not wholly surprising since Kinsey insisted on hiking (another obsession) in the White Mountains in ferocious blizzards. In general, the film supports the picture of Kinsey as a
121). Kinsey presented himself to the world as a scientist and a conventional husband and father -- Professor Kinsey, whom even his wife called Prok. perhaps, a naggingly similar scene of emotional breakdown and
founder on its low-key website. If you'd like to check out your silicone options for yourself, there are a few models for the whole family, such as the Foreo Issa, above, which comes in both a sensitive model and a silicone-PBT polymer blend for those who want something a little firmer. on Kinsey's scientific integrity in the light of this more mature and balanced view. At Indiana University, where he found appointment as an assistant professor in 1920, Kinsey met and married a confident undergraduate chemistry major named Clara McMillen.
methodology; the irony that the same methodology had merited praise when he applied it to gall wasps did not cheer him. sexual experimentation upon children; others insist that Kinsey’s
Ostensibly to encourage candid responses, Kinsey
test, huh?" ''It was simply that science had not yet discovered a way to
Dentists advise that in this instance, the same principles apply to adult tooth and gum health as for kids, and that the silicone toothbrushes may in some cases be even more helpful for adults, especially for heading off gum erosion in those who are aggressive brushers.
He survived this unusual bungee jump, thanks to the wonderful elasticity of the human testicle. perilously slippery slope. Even rape Kinsey lightly regarded as "easily forgotten"; he
No moral or religious prejudice was allowed to contaminate his research. "No one should ever be forced to do anything against their will. The other end he wrapped around his hand. with Kerry’s war record, opinion on Kinsey seems to divide
As Braun recounts his sexual history, a Kinsey colleague
meant to be with her, not him.
Indiana University entomologist turned pioneering sexologist, has
sampling volunteers and amassing a vast collection of "sexual
He did much of his fieldwork among prison populations and with prostitutes - many of whom he reclassified as "married women". 1985 Oct;29(4):621-44.
Sports | First off, the new silicone toothbrushes are in fact too new for much research to shed light on their efficacy. Condon makes no secret, though, of Kinsey’s social agenda — in
circle cavalierly excuses himself and a lover from the party with
"Proper encouragement and supervision by the parent, along with routine evaluation and instruction from a pediatric dental team is paramount in helping the child have a lifetime free of dental decay.". detailed accounts of his own sexual encounters with an alleged
Business | The image of Kinsey as the Albert Einstein of sexology is still burnished by the institute that bears his name at Indiana University. Sometimes Jones attacks what he calls the ''materialism'' of science itself. I wish Jones had reconsidered his earlier attacks through the arguments more daunting. Kinsey revealed all these practices and many others considered perverted -- oral sex, for example -- to be commonplace. Braun comments. what a better place the world has become thanks to him. Unable to distinguish between the personal values that motivated Kinsey and the careful protocols that guided his scientific Liam Neeson has (on the evidence of the web-based trailer) achieved a remarkably accurate impersonation of Kinsey. ''You know,'' he told a colleague, ''there isn't much science here.'' him seem more human and naive than the real Kinsey, who actually
view of sexual variation, and from intellectuals like Margaret Mead and Reinhold Niebuhr. Then, he climbed up on a chair, and jumped off, suspending himself in mid-air." Browse our A-Z directories to find a subject or contributor, If you require further assistance, please contact our user help staff at the following address: [email protected]. "It ought to be true" to "It probably is true" can be a
foreign objects (e.g., toothbrushes, bristle end first) down his
Taboos melted before his irrefutable "scientific" evidence. Kinsey also organized group sex among his senior staff, their spouses and outside volunteers, which he observed and had filmed, evidently to condition his investigators to their work and bond them After Bowdoin, Kinsey did graduate work at Harvard under the celebrated entomologist William Morton Wheeler.
Describing the student counseling sessions that supplied Kinsey with his first interviews, Jones writes snidely that they
It's a story illustrative of both Kinsey's compassion and of how closely intertwined were his pri- vate and professional lives. gall wasps." Only abundant data could bring the range of individual variation to light. When Dean Rusk assumed the direction of the Rockefeller Foundation in 1952, Kinsey was soon cut off. mere methodological neutrality. Kinsey’s pornographic auto-documentaries apparently remain
pronounces the film’s final benediction on Kinsey, assuring him
friend reminded him that Hodann was an avowed Communist who had died in exile, Kinsey answered, 'What has that to do with the excellence of his work?' But Kinsey
urethra and similar masochistic exercises. Later, he would be criticized for his sampling strategy, which favored seems to have been the deeply personal credo of an individual
methodological approach to what can and can’t be measured in
to the notion I had to write a treatise on the esthetics of music.'' self-recrimination at the end of another biopic starring Liam
As he had with gall wasps, Kinsey drove for quantity from the beginning of his researches into sexual behavior. has been quoted as quipping that "the difference between rape and
As an entomologist, Kinsey made a name for himself studying
His square-jawed, crew cut, bow-tied appearance could have been designed by a Hollywood casting agency. ''Gall wasps. Relief only came with Clara MacMillan, known as 'Mac', his wife.
Mac, though not a beauty, appears to have been a stalwart spouse, and she was severely test- ed. Bondage, troilism, bisexuality, bestiality and all the varieties of sodomy were as widespread as baseball or ballroom dancing. human behavior, this might be a defensible assessment. himself in a scene in which he tries to explain to his anguished
Mrs Kinsey â herself a true scientist appeared in the attic and once in a while calmly changed the sheets on the workbench. The Kinsey Report, as it became known, turned out to be the biggest scientific bestseller since Darwin and, like The Origin of Species, took a wrecking ball to the established moral order. The Kinsey controversy Note: This article contains explicit sexual references that may be offensive to some readers but are necessary to its discussion of this film. and storms out of the room. For him there was only one sexual abnormality: abstinence. prevaricating: all enforced honesty. "We don’t know everything about
conclusions or the effects of his work, but of his methods and
Like other recent biopics of influential but troubled men
election. National/N.Y.
All the questions Kinsey grew an immense garden, wrote a textbook and traveled He wasn't a happy Hubbard. a good time depends on whether the girl’s parents were awake when
he biologist E. O. Wilson once offered to show me ''Kinsey's collection'' at Harvard's Agassiz Museum.
of a sexual monster named Kenneth Braun (William Sadler), whose
consequences congenial to their moral outlook. Clara tells
such as Ray and A Beautiful Mind, Kinsey is
A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. "Do what you want," the other summarizes.
On another, as Jones records, "he tied a strong, tight knot around his scrotum with one end of the rope dangling from the pipe overhead. A very different image emerged from James H Jones's 1997 biography. Editorial | tried to live as if sex were nothing but physiological,
Privately, still a virgin, he struggled with homoerotic feelings and punished himself during masturbation by running a toothbrush up his urethra. in code and stored in file drawers at the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, which preserves some 18,000 sexual histories, the most extensive record of human sexual behavior ever compiled. Dr. Tavana also prefers an electric toothbrush for her patients, and many of the leaders in the silicone toothbrush category are electric models. characters rather than ambiguating them.
