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Article: Misreading Kinsey.(Bites: brief notes on news and views from around the world)(Alfred Kinsley, human sexual behavior in the 40s and 50s; and today, social and religious aspects)
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- Arena Magazine
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- February 1, 2005
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When the film Kinsey premiered in the US last year, serendipitously close to an election said to have been decided on 'moral issues', the wowsers came out in full force. Alfred Kinsey, the 40s and 50s US social researcher, again became public enemy number one in a new-millennium America seemingly in the grip of Christian evangelists.
While the film has not garnered quite the same pitch of moral fervour in Australia, the backlash against it has still been forthcoming. Moreover, there are certainly parallels to be made in regard to how we view our own behaviour, and whether we in Australia consider it the right of self-imposed moral institutions, such as the ...