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	Kinsey (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kinsey continues to answer students' questions in personal meetings, but finds his answers to be severely limited by the complete paucity of scientific data about human sexual intercourse.
		This leads Kinsey to pass out questionnaires in his sexual education class, from which he learns of the enormous disparity between what society had assumed people do and what their actual practices are.
		Alfred Kinsey himself suffers a heart attack, something foreshadowed in his mention of having a "weak heart" at the beginning of the movie, and is found to have developed an addiction to barbiturates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kinsey_(movie) (724 words)

	Political Film Society - Kinsey
		Kinsey discovers that there is an enormous variety of human sexual behavior, and many statistical findings are counterintuitive if not shocking: What is considered "normal" from a moral standpoint prior to his studies often turns out to be a statistical outlier.
		Kinsey considers his role to be a scientist who collects objective data and reports conclusions based on the data, nothing more, though he decries the fact that even the Library of Congress has over the years discarded publications of scientific importance because they were considered salacious.
		The film is released coincidentally just after an election in which more than one-fifth of the voters claimed that the most important factor in selecting a president were their different stands on abortion and homosexuality, perhaps a sign that Kinsey's influence has eroded significantly some fifty years after his death.
	www.geocities.com /polfilms/kinsey.html (776 words)

	The Kinsey Institute - History - Kinsey Bio [About the Institute]
		Alfred Charles Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, June 23, 1894.
		Then in 1938, Kinsey took over coordination of the new marriage course at Indiana University, and soon after began gathering case histories of sexual behavior.
		Kinsey and his staff collected over 18,000 interviews, and published Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953.
	www.indiana.edu /~kinsey/about/kinseybio.html (394 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Movies \| Sex On The Brain
		Kinsey, who died in 1956, was a mess of a man. Growing up with a Methodist father at the turn of the last century, he appears to have turned to science as a way of rebelling against his upbringing.
		According to Condon's film, by the time Kinsey had moved on to write the female companion study, he had come to terms with his bisexuality and was sharing his wife with an assistant.
		Although the screenplay shows Kinsey waiting until he was studying the science of sex before he had sex with men, Neeson says the scientist became aware that he was bisexual years earlier, and that Kinsey's awareness of his feelings was a catalyst in his determination to change the way Americans approached sexuality.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=6401 (1226 words)

	American Experience \| Kinsey \| Film Description \| PBS
		Produced and directed by Barak Goodman (Scottsboro: An American Tragedy, The Fight) and John Maggio (The Fight), Kinsey is the first American television documentary to be granted full access to the extensive collection of research materials at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, bringing to the public a wealth of never-before-seen archival material.
		It was at I.U. that the twenty-seven-year-old Kinsey met and married Clara McMillen, a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate student.
		Kinsey encouraged his team to follow his lead and experiment in a range of sexual relationships outside their marriages.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kinsey/filmmore/fd.html (857 words)

	CWA - The Truth about Alfred Kinsey
		Kinsey's work has been instrumental in advancing acceptance of pornography, homosexuality, abortion, and condom-based sex education, and his disciples even today are promoting a view of children as "sexual beings." Their ultimate goal: to normalize pedophilia, or "adult-child sex."
		Kinsey's studies have had an enormous impact on the law and the culture, despite later evidence that the research was fatally flawed and even involved cover-ups of child rape.
		Kinsey was a silent partner in the molestation of hundreds of children.
	www.cwfa.org /kinsey.asp (763 words)

	The Kinsey Institute - About the Movie
		Kinsey, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, is writer and director Bill Condon's interpretation of the life of Alfred C. Kinsey.
		A distinguished zoologist, Dr. Kinsey's interest in the study of human sexuality grew from his experience teaching a marriage course to students at Indiana University.
		Kinsey and his staff interviewed over 18,000 people about their sexual lives, publishing Sexual Behavior in the Human Male in 1948 and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953.
	www.kinseyinstitute.org /about/Kinsey_movie.html (98 words)

	Kinsey (2004) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A disturbing, or at least revealing, aspect of the film is the implication that Kinsey seemed to blur the line separating the personal and professional in his pursuit of carnal knowledge.
		Though the film tries to memorialize Kinsey as a social pioneer, it doesn't shy away from (nor does it condemn) his dubious breaches of ethical standards, such as encouraging intramural sexual activities among his staff and their wives.
		Like most film biographies, the honesty of KINSEY as history is debatable, as are the doctor's contribution to the health and welfare of the society.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0362269 (996 words)

	News from Agape Press
		Kinsey's data-collection methods have been called into question a number of times, with some critics calling attention to his statistically limited study sample, and others citing evidence that his interviewers were instructed to intimidate research subjects.
		The CWA spokesman asserts that Kinsey could easily be called the "godfather" of the homosexual activist movement, the campaign to mainstream pornography, and even the campaign to strike down abortion laws.
		He says Kinsey "was a sexual revolutionary masquerading as an objective scientist," whose most profound damage was done to children.
	headlines.agapepress.org /archive/11/112004c.asp (632 words)

	The Seattle Times: Movies: Groups denounce portrayal in "Kinsey"
		NEW YORK — Indignant conservative groups are protesting the release of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution.
		"Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theaters showing the film.
		Although the film portrays Kinsey as a flawed adulterer, conservative critics nonetheless contend it is too admiring.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/movies/2002088419_kinseyprotests12.html (314 words)

	Kinsey (2004): Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard - PopMatters Film Review
		The same battles Kinsey waged half a century ago are now resurrected, with the resurgence of censorship, intolerance, and repression, stemming from fear of sexual behaviors, desires, and differences, the very objects of Kinsey's pioneering studies.
		Kinsey's own openness to sex was, in his mind anyway, a function of his dedication to science.
		As the film is focused on Kenya's dilemmas, Brian is something of a cipher, the primary force for her transformation without a life beyond her vision.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/k/kinsey-dvd.shtml (1762 words)

	Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University
		The film is the director's interpretation of the life and work of Alfred C. Kinsey, a distinguished zoologist at Indiana University Bloomington who conducted groundbreaking research on human sexuality in the mid-1900s.
		Kinsey's original interview data, while more than 50 years old, is requested to this day by researchers wishing to analyze it and compare it to current research findings.
		Research at the Kinsey Institute on women's sexuality is attempting to understand the factors that contribute to well-being as well as to distress about sex.
	newsinfo.iu.edu /tips/page/normal/1645.html (1131 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Protests over 'sexologist' movie
		The Generation Life group said Kinsey was partly responsible for "devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion".
		Kinsey writer and director Bill Condon said protesters wanted to "pretend that the last 50 years didn't happen".
		Kinsey goes on limited release in the US on Friday before being rolled out across the country in coming weeks.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/4002317.stm (379 words)

	The Kinsey Institute -Movie facts
		The film crew followed the same policies and procedures for use of materials as anyone wishing to use the collections of The Kinsey Institute.
		But a second wave of comments were negative, and Kinsey was attacked by religious and conservative groups, and in some cases by the academic community, which questioned his data collection and analysis.
		Kinsey is widely respected today for interview methodology, documenting the wide variation in sexual behavior, studying the differences in male and female sexual response and perceptions, and launching the scientific study of sex.
	www.kinseyinstitute.org /about/Movie-facts.html (1214 words)

	Kinsey film review
		One of the more interesting observations raised by the film is that almost sixty years after Kinsey's findings helped liberate Americans from sexual subjugation, the country is rapidly heading back towards a more puritanical era, accelerated by incidents like Janet Jackson's celebrated clothing malfunction.
		Had he not died in 1956, it would be interesting to hear Kinsey's views on how much, and indeed how little, the world's attitudes towards sex have changed since the publication of his book.
		Kinsey may well have been a brilliant scientist, but he was also rather boring.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/kinsey.html (524 words)

	Kinsey Movie Review Liam Neeson as Professor Alfred Kinsey Sex Researcher
		I found the movie Kinsey to be both true to his work and to the essence of this dedicated man. Besides being highly entertaining, it was very relevant today to an audience which had no idea who Alfred Kinsey was or how his work had impacted their lives.
		One of the things which differentiated Kinsey from anyone who came before him was the way he was able to put people at ease during the interview so they would disclose their innermost secrets.
		I believe Dr. Kinsey's most valuable accomplishment was that, in an authoritarian age with a rising conflict between the religious and secular segments, he reaffirmed the rational pragmatic values of experimental science in a field of human existence previously given over to dogma and fear.
	www.doctorg.com /kinseyfilm.htm (1506 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Film star to portray 'sex reformer' Kinsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Kinsey biographer James H. Jones, former adviser to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, has admitted that Kinsey, the father of three children, was not the conventional academic and family man the university presented, but was sexually compromised.
		Kinsey produced pornography in his attic – filming his wife, male staff and their wives as performers – and sexually harassed his male students.
		For the Kinsey Institute, according to Reisman, the film likely will be seen as a boon to the institute's attempts to bolster Kinsey's reputation in the face of mounting criticism of his character and work.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29891 (1780 words)

	Film Review: Kinsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		A college professor and son of a Methodist, by the name of Alfred Kinsey (Liam Neeson), is causing a stir because he's talking frankly about sex and, naturally, students are flocking to hear him.
		Kinsey (the film) is particularly good early on when it exposes the misinformation being put out under the guise of sex education, highlighting misconceptions and prudish puritanical attitudes of those who prefer the subject not to be discussed.
		Ultimately, whilst Kinsey is an amusing, eccentric type, he's still like a lab-coat scientist and a man of his time and you'd have to be interested in the subject matter, or perhaps have lived through the period, to get much out of it.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/k/kinsey_2004_r3.shtml (349 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review KINSEY movie by Bill Condon with Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, ...
		i was disappointed that the film did not fully explore kinsey\'s relationship with his father because the film suggests all his fanatical dedication to exposing what people do behind closed doors came from that.
		Unfortunately for the film — and no doubt unintended by the director — Kinsey's intense, matter-of-fact focus on male and female body parts and the varying ways in which to engage them becomes silly after a while, almost laughable in its single-mindedness.
		There's a lot of explicit talk in "Kinsey" the film — references to masturbation, fornication, stimulation, copulation, menstruation, penetration — but the sad fact about Kinsey the man is that by failing to recognize love, an overreaching human emotion clearly absent from his research, he considered it to be the dirtiest word of all.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2004/kinsey.php (702 words)

	FOX MAKES FILM ON NAZI PEDOPHILE COLLABORATOR, ALFRED KINSEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Roger Ebert, for example, calls the film "Oscar-worthy." The irony is that the film comes from Fox Searchlight Pictures, a branch of Rupert Murdoch's News Corps., the parent company of the Fox News Channel.
		Kinsey, always portrayed in the press as a wholesome "leave it to Beaver" style family man, was "one of the scholarly eugenicists of pre-World War II", according to biographer James Jones.
		Kinsey recommended that a portion of the "lower classes" be sterilized to foster a more robust gene pool.
	www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=61678 (538 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Kinsey film director 'upset' by campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Reisman contends, however, that Kinsey's involvement with research on children was much more extensive, and she emphasizes that there is not "a shred of scientific data" that would support his "notion of child sexuality."
		The Kinsey study, widely seen as the book that launched the "sexual revolution," has been used to support the contention that sexual activity in children is natural and healthy and should not be repressed.
		Kinsey grew up in a strict Methodist religious environment, the Capitol Times said, and he reacted against it through his research, which began with the sexual activity of gall wasps.
	www.wnd.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31055 (1601 words)

	Film Review: Kinsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-02)
		Bravely tackling the man who exploded the myth of the vaginal orgasm, Condon's sympathetic and perceptive film is orchestrated to the rhythms of intellectual passion rather than the dry dictates of chronology.
		Then Clyde asks the pivotal question: "How do you get along with your father?" And the film dips backwards to Kinsey's childhood and a preacher father (John Lithgow), obsessed with banishing thoughts of masturbation ("Read the Sermon on the Mount, keep the bowels open and submerge the testicles in ice water" is his three-point plan).
		This section of the film is easily the most buoyant, as Condon lightens the academic atmosphere with an entertaining montage of interview sessions - a welcome, if predictable, breather before the film stiffens to face the inevitable puritan backlash.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/k/kinsey_2004.shtml (709 words)

	Kinsey :: Film Review :: Nightlife
		For more than 40 years Alfred "Prok" Kinsey (Liam Neeson)a professor at the University of Indiana, spoke with people about the intimate, most revealing details of their sex lives — and through his scientific research and publications, helped to erode a lot of the fear and hypocrisy that had built up around sex in America.
		We meet the young Kinsey as he's watching his father, a wildly puritanical Methodist Minister, quaking with passion as he rails against the temptation and evil caused by zippers, electricity and ice cream parlours.
		Kinsey had an affair with his bisexual assistant, as did Clara - and the men on his research team swapped wives and filmed themselves in the act.
	www.abc.net.au /nightlife/stories/s1284662.htm (627 words)

	BreakPoint \| Kinsey on Film
		Kinsey, a movie starring Liam Neeson as notorious post-World War II sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, has gotten wide positive coverage in the elite media, from the New York Times to Entertainment Weekly.
		Unsurprisingly, the consensus is that in this age of neo-fascism, Kinsey is a brave portrayal of a forward-thinking rebel and liberator, a Prometheus of erotica.
		Kinsey biographer Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy writes to the New York Times to complain about Kinsey critic Judith Reisman, who had the bad taste to point out that Kinsey was a pedophile who talked to rapists, robbers and murderers for his study.
	www.pfm.org /AM/Template.cfm?Section=BreakPoint1&Template=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=14398 (901 words)

	WorldNetDaily: Film star to portray 'sex reformer' Kinsey
		Kinsey concluded, for example, that 69 percent of white males had had at least one experience with a prostitute.
		Bancroft eagerly dodges the fact that whether Kinsey used one rapist to tell the world that child sex is normal, or whether he recruited many rapists – which he did – it doesn't change the fact that there isn't a shred of scientific data that would support the notion of child sexuality," Reisman told WND.
		The film is one of five Myriad Pictures features to be produced by Coppola's American Zoetrope studios.
	www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29891 (1780 words)

	CTV.ca \| Conservative groups denounce 'Kinsey' film
		— Indignant conservative groups are protesting this week's opening of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution.
		A SIECUS spokeswoman, Adrienne Verrilli, said the sexual revolution of the 1960s would have happened even without Kinsey, as the birth control pill became widely available, Playboy magazine grew in popularity, and the feminist movement encouraged women to rethink their roles and relationships.
		Swindell, interviewed by telephone from Boise, Idaho, said the planned Generation Life protests are intended to discourage people from seeing the film, at least until they do their own research on Kinsey's life and works.
	ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1100127404082_40?... (711 words)

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