Kinsey (film)

Kinsey is a 2004 American biographical drama film written and directed by Bill Condon. It describes the life of Alfred Charles Kinsey played by Liam Neeson, a pioneer in the area of sexology. His 1948 publication, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male the first of the Kinsey Reports was one of the first recorded works that tried to scientifically address and investigate sexual behavior in humans. The film also stars Laura Linney in a performance nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Chris ODonnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, and Oliver Platt.

At a book party celebrating Kinseys latest publication on gall wasps, Kinsey approaches the dean of students about an openforum sex education course as opposed to the antisex propaganda taught in a general health class. Eventually, it is approved, but on the grounds that it is open only to teachers, graduate or senior students or married students. Nevertheless, Kinsey begins, teaching the sex course to a packed auditorium. Kinsey continues to answer students questions in personal meetings but finds his answers to be severely limited by the complete paucity of scientific data about human sexual behavior. This leads Kinsey to pass out questionnaires in his sexual education class from which he learns of the enormous disparity between what society had assumed people do and what their actual practices are. After securing financial support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Kinsey and his research assistants, including his closest assistant, Clyde Martin, travel the country, interviewing subjects about their sexual histories.As time progresses Kinsey begins realizing that sexuality within humans, including himself, is a lot more varied than was originally thought. The range of expression he creates later becomes known as the Kinsey scale, which ranks overall sexuality from completely heterosexual to completely homosexual and everything inbetween. ........

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