The film Kinsey's perspective on human sexuality and personal bias

Kinsey (Film)

Kinsey's Journey

There were actually quite a few different events that led Kinsey to give up his pursuit of biology and to study sexuality instead. One of the more salient of these is his relationship with his wife Mac, who exudes drastically different desires for sex both before and after her surgery for her sexual problem. Also, Kinsey's proclivity to meet with his biology students after class and discuss their sex lives was another contributing factor. Lastly, once Kinsey decided to teach a sex-ed course, he saw the marked lack of empirical evidence regarding this field, and decided to compile some of his own.

These events biased Kinsey's perspective regarding sexuality because initially they lead him to believe that people's sexual tendencies and appetites are all the same. These events largely influenced Kinsey to believe that people were naturally inhibited regarding sex and their sexuality, and it took him some time to see that society was inhibited, which influenced people to behave in such a way.

3. Kinsey's predominant perspective regarding human sexuality was that people were restrained and that they needed to liberate themselves in order to fin emotional fulfillment. However, after leading a life of sexual restraint for most of his life, he eventually sees some of the emotional downfall of being too sexually liberated.

4. Kinsey's principle bias regarding human sexuality was that he believed everyone pretty much conceived of and practiced sexual urgings and tendencies in the same way. He was surprised to find out this was not true.

5. The evidence we have is that Kinsey was willing to attempt to get empirical evidence regarding people's sexual propensities. That's why he passed out questionnaires to his early sex education class, and that's why he eventually traveled the country to gather more evidence that is quantifiable. Also, Kinsey won't study love because love is not quantifiable.

6. Yes, because Kinsey became emotionally attached to some of his subject whom he was studying. Psychologists today are not allowed to have sex with their subjects, yet Kinsey did. Also, he involved his wife in his sexual studies, despite the fact that there was a close emotional involvement between the pair.

7. Primarily because of the sociological restraints that were in place in America during this time period, in which McCarthyism and Communist scares, and the upholding of traditional American morals was most prominent.

8. Largely because of the aforementioned moral restraints that were in place in American society. People needed to be sexually liberated, but the country as a whole had not quite condoned those values -- until the 1960's.