06 / December
06 / December
Cinematic Kinsey Clashes With the Real Kinsey

The biopic Kinsey fails both as biography and motion picture. Against a backdrop of strawmen and stereotypes, Bill Condon's Kinsey emerges to slay ignorance. The real Kinsey did more to perpetuate sexual ignorance than any other figure of the past century. Perhaps in tribute, this fawning movie adopts Alfred Kinsey's dishonesty in telling the Indiana University professor's story. "Artistic license" whitewashes Kinsey's extreme masochism, tolerance of pedophilia, and stacking his sample group with prison inmates and homosexuals, but it fails to make the movie interesting or entertaining. Read what the film starring Liam Neeson leaves out in my review of Kinsey on Accuracy in Media's site.

posted at 07:27 PM
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Great article Dan.

Posted by: Brian on December 6, 2004 08:43 PM

Don't forget that Masters and Johnson were similar charlatans, just as dishonest as Kinsey! I remember well their money-making book sensationalizing on the early fears and ignorance about the cause of AIDS, claiming among other things, that AIDS came from mosquito bites. No research cited.
CTR

Posted by: CTRandall on December 7, 2004 12:58 PM
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