Madman Biography

Moshe 2021-12-24 08:01:18

I downloaded an e-book called "Kinsey Sexology Report" out of curiosity before, and found that it was not relying on some sexual things with pornographic factors to attract attention, but really teaching knowledge. , Answer the question, let the public establish a correct treatment of it.

The same film not only documented the legendary life of the sexology master Kinsey, but also gave viewers a deeper understanding of sexology.

That's right, Kinsey is a madman. He dared to be the first person to eat crabs. Without a pioneer like him to break some traditions and open up some fields, human society would not develop so fast. In order to learn, he tried to have close contact with men to think about homosexuality. He allowed his wife and assistant to have sex (of course, his wife was also her assistant), and he could use his father as a research object, although These are not necessary, but they are a manifestation of his pursuit of the ultimate.

Sex is no longer a mysterious topic in today’s society, and people’s attitudes towards it are becoming more and more open. Even in this environment, the level of popularization of sex knowledge is still at a low level in today’s highly developed information environment. Level, especially in developing countries like China, although this issue has been paid attention to and improved in recent years, the actual effect is still not satisfactory. In the process of watching movies, I felt that the American attitude towards sexual obsolescence in the 1930s was similar to that of China in the 1990s. Kinsey’s early marriage courses at that time were of great historical significance, and the knowledge of sex was applied separately. In the classroom, freely and boldly communicate with students (it is meaningless to have sex education classes that only the teacher writes on the lecture table). Although his ups and downs were caused by the influence of external factors, his profound influence on sexology was indelible.

Alfred Kinsey: Pioneer of Sociological Investigation of Sex

When Alfred Kinsey published his empirical research on male sexual behavior in the United States in 1948, the morbidity of homosexuality had not yet been affected. Unlike studies that rely on small amounts of clinical data, his findings are based on a sample survey of large numbers of white American men. Kinsey's work is to study the way of sexual behavior, so it is almost purely empirical, without any systematic theoretical reference. He believes that data can speak for itself, so he abandoned the traditional dichotomy view of normal and abnormal (abnormal), assuming that the difference he found is quantitative, not qualitative. After being freed from the confinement of the cultural perspective of clinical research, he was able to challenge traditional psychiatry in terms of the concept of normal sexual behavior.

His findings revealed the gap between social standards and actual sexual behavior, shocking the American public. The discovery of same-sex sexual behavior is one of the important challenges issued by this research. The academic circles at that time generally accepted the assumption that homosexuality is a rare and pathological phenomenon. Kinsey's discovery really bothered them. In fact, Kinsey himself was surprised by the research results. "During the research process, we were not prepared for such data." 37% of the male population had had physical contact with the same sex and reached orgasm between adolescence and old age. It is also surprising that this behavior presents a continuous distribution, with people who have no homosexual sex at one end, and people who only engage in homosexual sex at the other. (Kinsey scored the subjects from 0 to 6, with 0 representing absolute heterosexual behavior and 6 representing absolute homosexual behavior.) 10% of the interviewees reported that they were absolutely homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 11 and 55. behavior.
Kinsey quickly used his findings to challenge the orthodox doctrine of mental illness at the time. He believes that based on the frequency of discovery, it is unreasonable to regard homosexuality as a mental illness. Especially in many adults, there are both heterosexual and same-sex sexual behaviors. He believes that it is incorrect to associate homosexuality with psychopathic trends in the usual sense. The information obtained from the interviewee further supports this view. Kinsey advocated that statistically normal should not become psychologically abnormal. Furthermore, he opposed the use of heterosexual sex as a biological orientation. On the contrary, he believes that "the ability of an individual to have a sexual response to any external stimulus is the basic ability of the race." Our "mammalian inheritance" allows us to have both heterosexual and homosexual reactions.
Alfred Charles Kinsey was born in Haubken, New Jersey in 1894. In 1919, he received a doctorate in science from Harvard University, after which he came to Indiana University to teach zoology. He has established a solid academic reputation with ecological experiments and research on classification and evolution. In 1937, he was listed as the star scientist of the year by the "Scientific Man of America" ​​magazine.

In 1938, Kinsey took over a marriage course taught by several professors. Kinsey's analysis from a physiological perspective has made him the most popular professor of this course. Many students came to him to ask him about sex. He gradually realized that there is a huge gap in the understanding of sex, and that the study of sex is an important but long neglected field. This prompted him to start collecting information about sexual behavior. In 1947, Kinsey established a non-profit sexual behavior research institute, which developed into today's "Kinsey Institute of Sex, Gender and Reproduction".

Kinsey and his researchers are trying to understand the diverse human sexual behavior. Kinsey first studied the mating behavior of mammals in general, and slowly he began to photograph the process of human sexual behavior. He can only photograph the researchers and their spouses involved in the study, plus a few volunteers. Several years later, this method of observation was widely accepted as a method of scientific inquiry.
Kinsey and his researchers collected a total of 18,000 personal history cases. Among them, Kinsey himself participated in the interviews and investigations of 7,985 cases. The survey subjects come from all walks of life, including smugglers, clergy, office workers, psychologists, lawyers, marriage counselors; there are quite rich people, and there are also poor people who receive social assistance. In each case, the interviewee has to answer as many as 521 questions. Covers social, economic, physical and psychological data. Involving marriage history, sexual resolution, heterosexual history and homosexual history, etc. The result of the investigation is the two groundbreaking works "Human Male Sexual Behavior" and "Human Female Sexual Behavior", collectively referred to as the "Kinsey Report." Both books have sold nearly 300,000 copies and have been translated into 11 languages.

The first book was published in 1948 and soon became a bestseller, and Kinsey became the famous "Doctor of Sex." Before the second book was published (1953), the entire United States was waiting to see what Dr. Kinsey had discovered about American female sexual behavior. A few months before the book’s publication, Kinsey invited reporters from all over the United States and famous media such as the United Kingdom, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and other famous media to introduce the main content of the second book to them, and asked these reporters to sign an agreement. , The content includes: The manuscript cannot exceed 5,000 words, must be reviewed by him, and cannot be published before August 23, the publication date. Therefore, August 23 was called K-DAY (Kinsey Kinsey Day) by the world media.

On K-Day, people flocked to newsstands to read reports about Kinsey. Several major weekly magazines in the United States "Time", "Life", "Newsweek" and so on have reported. The second book quickly became a bestseller.

Several conclusions of the Kinsey report present a United States that people do not know, or the United States that has been veiled off. For example, in an age when premarital sex is still regarded as infidelity, the Kinsey survey shows that more than half of men and women have had premarital sex; another example, the Kinsey survey shows that the proportion of homosexual tendencies and behaviors far exceeds people's imagination. These conclusions are conceivable for the shock of American society in the 1940s and 1950s.

In 1956, Kinsey died of a heart attack at the age of 62, leaving behind his 35-year-married wife Clara and 3 children. The Kinsey Research Institute, located at Indiana University, has inherited Kinsey's research heritage and continues to research on the subject of "Sex, Gender, and Reproduction".

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  • Stephania 2022-03-29 09:01:04

    How could I not do this without emotion?

  • Olen 2022-04-23 07:02:46

    So many familiar actors! Lincoln! Truman! The male protagonist looks like Fiennes! There are some thought-provoking sayings, for example, humans converge because of cowardice. For example, everyone's sin is not anyone's sin. For example, F***ing is not something but everything.

Kinsey quotes

  • Clara McMillen: I consider myself a free-thinker, and... frankly... I find you a little churchy.

  • Clara McMillen: A gall wasp in amber! How old is it?

    Alfred Kinsey: About 80 million years or so. Does Mrs. Kinsey like her wedding present?

    Clara McMillen: It's perfect.