Anger: I could tell he was tiring more than when I first met him. In part, it was Kinsey' own uncompromising nature that made him a figure of lasting controversy. Narrator: Kinsey's scale was part of his larger argument that society accept the full range of human sexuality. Patricia Franck Sheffield: I saw a notice on the bulletin board in the dormitory, recommending that we volunteer for a research project with a noted scientist named so and so. Narrator: Too sick to play sports with other boys, forbidden to see girls outside of school, young Alfred spent most of his time alone. I also think they made Kinsey feel unbelievably defensive. Suddenly you could talk about sex because Kinsey had. Taking on women's sexuality, Kinsey knew, was far more explosive than reporting on men. Hardy: He could use Pomeroy as a sort of sexual missile, which he could fire as, as it were at people he wanted to film. Julia Ericksen: He certainly himself said that when he married he was a virgin and that his wife was a virgin too, and that they had a lot of difficulty at the beginning because they didn't know what to do...and remember this is a boy, man who as a boy had been feeling terrible about masturbation so now he gets married and suddenly he's supposed to be an expert. It would be a better place, to know about sex than not to know. Please answer me, sir, please help me. Getty Images Narrator: As debates over Kinsey's methodology spread, the Rockefeller Foundation became concerned. He'd relied too much on college students at the expense of the working class, too much on Whites at the expense of Blacks, too much on the sexually marginalized at the expense of the mainstream. He hoped to get 100% participation from the group and so these other gals came raring out to talk us all into being part of the 100%. It came out in 1953, the war was over, and the Cold War had begun. Amanda Ciccarelli And they describe how many of the boys experienced orgasm, boys, young boys having repeated orgasm. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: In these millions and hundreds of thousands of gall wasps, not a single one was the same. There was not a lot of premarital sex going on at all. Kinsey Institute Library George Platt Lynes Collection He was ready to share his discoveries in a new kind of sexuality course, one that would banish myth with fact and prejudice with tolerance. In fact, he wanted people who were not as he said, sex shy. And uh, enough so that when this came to Kinsey's attention he, he drew me aside and said, you know this is, you're damaging Martin's marriage and we can't have this and I want you to stop right now, no more, so I did. A world without guilt. Suddenly the conspiracy of silence is shattered in a society that had been tapped down, and really things will never be the same again. Kinsey sunk into a deep depression. I think the more you know about anything the better you can do it, and the better you can do it the more successful you are. His grandmother introduced him to heterosexual intercourse, his father to homosexual intercourse, he'd slept with quite literally countless men and women. Consuelo Lopez Morilla and Family But the biggest news event in America is the publication of a book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, otherwise known as the Kinsey report. What it amounted to, he grew up thinking sex was evil, that uh, masturbation would uh, put you in the madhouse ultimately you know. And the effect was extraordinary. For those which require a viewing copy be made, patrons may pay for a video to video transfer when copyright restrctions do not apply. It became her obsession too. ', Narrator"One day," Kinsey promised one young man in Chicago. Richard Remsberg, Additional Voices And that turned out to be the ideal background for creating the first institute for the study of sexual behavior. Woman, SOT: I never talked about sex to any of my friends. James Jones: The marriage course gives him his first opportunity to collect sexual histories. And under one which they labeled, "the homosexual," there was the picture of a rather pretty uh, sort of effeminate, white boy. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: At school, like sick people often are, he was bullied a lot. He said to Kinsey what would Mack say if, if I, if I asked if she'd sleep with me? He could be disinterested. Robert Knight, who directs the Institute for Family and Culture at Concerned Women for America, is another Kinsey critic who sees a potential silver lining in the movie. Narrator: This was to be the inner circle: Martin, Pomeroy, Gebhard, and Kinsey. Narrator: In prison, Kinsey made a discovery that shocked him: locked up alongside hardened criminals, he met dozens of men who had done nothing more than have consensual sex. Mortified by his sexual fumblings with Clara, Kinsey went in search of answers, plunging into the existing literature about sex. Directed by Bill Condon. He was soon put in touch with a young Harvard anthropologist named Paul Gebhard. Narrator: There were charges that Kinsey had allowed his personal interests to creep into his sample. I'm all right. The Kinsey Institute Library materials are cataloged in IUCAT, the Indiana University Libraries online catalog. Bancroft: Tables 31 to 34 are about orgasms in pre-pubital boys. The collections are grouped into the following categories: Historical Stag films; Peepshow; Sex Education; Animal Sex Behavior; Swedish Erotica and Art, Exploitation, and Pornographic feature films. Men reached their sexual peak at the age of 19. He would need as many as 100,000 sexual histories from men and women, old and young, black and white, rich and poor. Kinsey pushed them hard -- fourteen hour days, six days a week. I stayed out later. Oh we'll have a gabfest". Erickson: John Tukey, actually said to Kinsey that he would have, he would prefer a sample of, a probability sample of 400 to Kinsey's 18,000 interviews. And I said I haven't heard of him, uh, what did he write? If we had turned anybody in, that would have been the end of the research. And that was what he was trying to do with human sexual behavior.... By collecting the enormous variety of sexual experiences that everybody had had. Paul Gebhard: He began to rebel against all this prior restraint and cast aside the religious dogma and start thinking about sex and then start reading about it and finding that uh, there was very little known and that what a lot of what was known was nonsense. He lectured that sexual ignorance led to real suffering, and sexual liberation was the key to a strong marriage and a happy life. He would have seen Women's Lib, he would have seen the Civil Rights movement. Those are the germs that cause your syphilis. Paul Gebhard: All his father gave him was a suit of clothes. His data had revealed that 66% of women dreamed of sex, 62% had masturbated, 14% had multiple orgasms. A timeline of events relevant to Alfred Kinsey's life, and sex research and social policies in America. From Executive Director, Dr. Justin Garcia. Many women hailed it as long past due. James Jones: Suddenly the conspiracy of silence is shattered in a society that had been tapped down, and really things will never be the same again. and Twin Cities Public Television, Inc. To Kinsey, the case histories underscored the need for more research; to many alumni and faculty, they were proof that the professor had gone too far. Rick Robertson And that perhaps his behavior with his inner circle, with his wife, with the wives of - of his fellow researchers might have been harmful in ways that he wouldn't admit. But in the end, he found only certain groups willing to cooperate.
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