Alfred Kinsey circumcised himself with a pocketknife, compulsively pierced his genitals, and partook in peculiar activities involving a noose and his groin. But the Indiana University professor's unsettling personal behavior is not why his mid-century reports on human sexuality are so controversial today. My piece on TownHall.com explains why Kinsey's dishonest scholarship, rather than the bedroom behavior that motivated that scholarship, serves as the primary basis for objecting to Kinsey and the hagiographic film by the same name that hits theaters across the nation on Friday.
Kinsey was extremely progressive, I didnt discovered auto-erotic asphyxiate in the 80's.
Kinsey was a perv ... and I'm not talking about his auto-erotic genital self-mutilation fixation. I mean his research methods were crooked. Kinsey made the Lancet's "excess Iraqi deaths" study look like actual science.
The People vs Larry Flynt was a heinous movie. How does one make a movie about porn boring? I don't know but Oliver Stone did. Hollywood has their own agenda. How else does one explain making a movie like Cider House Rules? Kinsey would be on money if the loony left had it's way.
Sick bastid’! But, as Dr. Evil would say: “there’s nothing quite like a shorn scrotum”.
I remember frequenting a low key hang-out of Kinsey's in Greenwich Village called "The Steamed Parsnip". Other establishments he haunted where "The Lion Tamer", " The Rouge Lamp" and also a very rough tough bar that sailors, writers and dock workers where regulars was a place called "Raisins". He drank Vodka martini's and liked to give paper cuts to passers by. Occasionally at the club while involved in conversation he purposely wet his pants as he got a thrill out of seeing the looks of horror and disbelieve on peoples faces. The most valid opinionated observers new it was a brilliant piece of art in motion. The quest into Kinsey's world is treacherous yet subtle.
Leni Riefenstahl sez: But it's just A MOVIE!
Dave wrote:
“The movie does depict Kinsey positively, but this has as much to do with Hollywood's obsession for focus groups as it does for the simple theatrical truth that an audience needs to empathize with the protagonist in order for the movie to hold its viewer's interest.”
KINSEY - Opening Weekend: $169,038
KINSEY – Yearly 2004 rank: 260 (below SOUL PLANE)
If you think that KINSEY was produced as a crowd pleaser, I have some ocean front property in Montana that you might want to buy.
Nice try, but you can’t blame this one on capitalism.
$169,038 on opening weekend! Wow! At an average ticket cost of $7.00, that's barely 24,000 viewers. Factor out all the homosexuals and deviants who saw the movie, and we're talking about 8 or 9 people.
With that kind of exposure, who cares what it's about? It is simply irrelevant. You'd think greed would trump ideology. Guess not.
