bingle

There's a new film coming out that's a biography of Alfred Kinsey, the sexuality researcher. However, some people are protesting the film...

http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movi....ap/index.html

I find it amazing that people have this attitude about investigating sexuality in this day and age.

Does Tilted Sexuality help contribute to AIDS, divorce and the "homosexual agenda"? Quite possibly!

Bingle

Lebell

If so, where the hell are our royalties???

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Coppertop

Yeah, one person is responsible for:

irateplatypus

what's so amazing? no one is against investigating sexuality at all. the protesters do not think the film accurately portrays kinsey's career, glossing over some of the damage they feel he took part of. you may disagree with their opinion of kinsey... but their attitude seems healthy.

classic line lebell.

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bingle

Their attitude doesn't seem very healthy to me, nor very rational. Do you honestly believe that providing information about sexuality caused any of the "problems" cited? (I put that in quotes because I don't see homosexuality as a problem).

If you read the article, some people are very clearly against investigating sexuality...
They're blaming these ills on his research, not on him going out and personally forcing people to have abortions, watch pornography, or infecting people with STDs.

Bingle

jonjon42

sex research is still under attack in America. Federal grants have been reduced severely (and no the private sector won't pick this research up). One of the professors at my school is doing some sex research and has gotten death threats from fundamentalists. It's gotten crazy.

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irateplatypus

that quote is misleading. first, the quote is about sex education and it was used to make a case about sex investigation. two very separate things with different social implications. true, focus on the family is against some sex education programs... but not because they prefer people be uneducated about sex. they contend that the age group for these programs is much too young and sometimes object to the state being the institution in which kids learn about sex. kinsey advocated kids being taught about sex more in-depth and at a younger age than many parents were comfortable with. i think this is honest grounds for a sincere debate.

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joeshoe

They're certainly exaggerating it, but you can't deny there has been some influence from the man on America's sexuality, namely making it more open, for better or worse.