By Selwyn Duke
If you're like most Americans, when hearing the term "sexual revolution," you think of the 1960s. Conjured up are images of hippies in tie-dyed t-shirts, Woodstock, rock 'n' roll, and everything else that attended that tumultuous time in our history. Lying in contrast is the image of the 1950s, supposedly a time of white picket fences, Leave It to Beaver, and sexual "repression." Yet some would trace the beginning of the sexual revolution back to that purportedly staid decade, and among these are the creators of a new documentary, The Kinsey Syndrome.
The documentary identifies a seminal year in the sexual revolution: 1953. What happened then? Alfred Kinsey, the famous — perhaps we should say infamous — "sex researcher" and professor at the University of Indiana in Bloomington, issued the second volume of his research, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, a work likened to an "atomic bomb" dropped on traditional morality in America. It was a follow-up to Kinsey's 1948 work Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, and together, they were a one-two punch, the Fat Man and Little Boy of the new morality, helping to change the way Americans viewed their nation — perhaps forever.
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Selwyn,
Now I see why your site has been slow for the last little while; you have been quite busy. This was a very nice piece of work, and the length did not bother me; if is worth saying it doesen't matter how long it is.
I wished I could say I was shocked and sickened by your article. Although the information you passed within the article was new to me, it does not surprise me at all. I would love to see a list of Kinsley's fellows and cohorts. I will bet a trail will be led right back to the communist party. This whole sceme smacks of Gramschi. I was sickened by the article however; I am not sure I can watch the movie; although I probably should.
Posted by: Walt | April 19, 2009 at 06:45 PM