[lbo-talk] Kinsey died of fiendish levels of masturbation, and other fun facts

[Jon Johanning]

I saw the Kinsey film a week or so ago and was meaning to recommend 
that everyone who hasn't seen it, do! I think it's an excellent 
invocation of the atmosphere concerning sex in American culture in the 
40s and 50s, and the great contribution Kinsey made to change it. It 
raises the issue of how his work represented an uneasy combination of 
scientific rigor with political, society-changing activism. It has been 
criticized for not going into his personal life and relationships with 
his wife and others around him deeply enough, and certainly there is a 
lot more in that area to be explored, but how much can one film do?

When it first came out, there were reports of scattered protests at 
theaters, but it seems that that movement sputtered out. In Philly, 
admittedly deep in the heart of the blue states, it is attracting very 
large audiences. Hope it contributes some to the enlightenment of other 
places.

Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org
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