Kinsey Page #3

Synopsis: Called Prok as an adult (short for Professor Kinsey), Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century, despite the criticisms of such being evil nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father, professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University, initially focusing on the study of gall wasps. But those studies in combination with questions from his students, coming to terms with the needs of sex with his own wife, a former student of his named Clara McMillen (who he calls Mac), and what he sees as the gross misinformation on the subject currently within popular belief makes him change his focus to human sexuality. Many of those gross untruths - as he sees them - are that oral sex and masturbation cause a slew of maladies, which are perpetuated by what is presented in the university's hygiene class taught by Professor Thurman Rice. With the approval of faculty head Herma
Director(s): Bill Condon
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 17 wins & 50 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
79
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%
R
Year:
2004
118 min
$10,214,647
Website
808 Views


- Mouth?

- Hand on female genitalia?

- Hand on penis?

- Yes.

Mouth on female genitalia?

- Mouth on penis?

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Yes.

Yes.

Yes, yes, yes.

I became pregnant with Anne in 1923.

I decided to give up my graduate work.

By the time Anne was born,

I had collected over 200,000 gall wasps.

Joan came along a year later.

Just afterJoan's fifth birthday,

I reached my goal of half a million wasps.

And Bruce is our youngest.

Bruce found the gall

that hatched the millionth wasp.

It was in the mountains

outside Mexico City.

They grow up so fast.

Wejust didn't know

who to talk to, Professor Kinsey.

What about your parents?

I'd rather die.

We heard you had good advice

for some of the biology students.

Sexual difficulty among newly married people

is more common than you think.

It's nothing to be ashamed of.

- How long have you been married?

- Two months now.

And, Emily, you've had absolutely

no response during that time?

It's like I'm dead down there.

We went to the doctor,

and he said there's nothing wrong.

Does Ben ever use his fingers

to excite you?

Um...

why bother...

now that we can do the real thing?

What's your most common

sexual position?

There's more than one?

Mac and I are still discovering some.

Emily, were you sexually experienced

before you got married?

No.

I still thought babies

came out of women's navels.

Did you ever masturbate?

It's all my fault.

I'm damaged in some way.

I'm frigid.

I don't think that's the problem at all.

Ben, do you ever perform

oral sex on Emily?

Uh, I... I don't know

what that means, sir.

Genital kissing.

My brother told me

that that causes problems...

later on...

with having babies.

Oh, I don't think that's true.

No, I heard that too.

I can assure you, there's no relation

between oral sex and pregnancy.

But how do you know?

How do I know the Earth is round?

It just is.

But... has anyone actually proven...

that there's no connection?

If you're asking whether

there's been a scientific study...

devoted to the subject

of oral copulation and fertility...

well...

frankly, I don't know.

Well...

then how can you be sure?

I felt like a blundering amateur.

I couldn't imagine where

those kids' crazy idea came from...

until I discovered this...

Ideal Marriage:

Its Physiology and Technique.

Oh, dear.

"Oral contact, while acceptable

as a means of stimulation...

is pathological if carried through

to orgasm and possibly injurious."

I must be in grave danger then.

Wait. "The hand should never be used

for the purpose of sexual excitation.

"There is but one finger of love with

which to approach the female genitals...

and that is the male organ."

It's all just hooey.

Morality disguised as fact.

- Just do your tie.

- Hmm? Oh.

Professor Kinsey's methods...

of collecting vast numbers

of gall wasps...

over a wide geographic range...

have made him a starred scientist.

They have also earned him

his immortal nickname...

"Get-A-Million" Kinsey.

"Bore-A-Million" Kinsey.

His new book,

The Origin of Higher Categories in...

"Sinnips"? "Cynips"?

Close enough.

Traces the origin of the gall wasp

back to its birthplace...

in the Upper Cretaceous.

So, now I give you...

Dr. Kinsey.

Thank you, President Wells, for that

incisive description of 20 years of work.

I thought you

might actually have read my book...

until I saw those crib notes

in your palm.

Crib notes!

Of course,

my other book on cynips...

hasn't been checked out

of the library in six years.

I'd be surprised

if a dozen people have read it.

But I guess I always knew

that gall wasps weren't going to...

make them beat a path to my door.

In any case, thank you, Herman.

This is... This is splendid.

A really fine event indeed.

- Thank you.

- Cheers, Prok.

- Congratulations.

- Hear.! Hear.!

Cheers.

Some reform-minded undergraduates...

paid me a visit the other day,

Thurman.

They are campaigning for a sex course.

I already cover sex in the hygiene class.

Which the student paper called

the most useless course on campus.

Oh, Kinsey. I'm glad to see middle age

hasn't softened the edges.

- Mrs. Kinsey.

- Not only is your class irrelevant, it's irresponsible.

There's a V.D. Epidemic

sweeping this country, Thurman.

And that's my fault? I don't know

whether to be insulted or flattered.

Besides, there's a cure for syphilis...

and it's called abstinence.

Penicillin works just as well.

Herman, the trustees appointed you

to shake things up around here.

Why not address the need

for sex instruction that deals frankly...

with students' real questions,

real concerns?

Open sex instruction

promotes daydreaming.

It is better to address these matters

in a general medical course.

You mean an anti-sex course...

with irrelevant gabble

about dahlias and bees.

Gentlemen. Please.

I am going to take the students'proposal

under advisement.

Good.

But since I just got this job...

and wouldn't mind hanging on to it

for a couple of weeks...

I think I'm gonna stick with

the hygiene course for now.

Medical authorities state...

that, of the type of teenage giris applying

at public health stations for aid...

the percentage that is infected

with venereal disease...

is always very high.

In all of these cases...

where youthful energy

and inquisitiveness are unrestrained...

The sex urge is always present...

and promiscuity nearly always follows...

- With its inevitable harvest...

of abortions, illegitimate births and...

disease.

- What's your trouble, Jerry?

- Well, I... I've got a pretty bad sore down here.

Just stretch out on that table over there.

We'll have a look at you.

The story vividly portrays...

the misery caused to innocent victims...

- By the ignorance or selfishness...

of individuals infected with syphilis.

You had to learn the hard way...

that you can't tell by the looks of a woman

whether she has syphilis or not.

I guess that finishes me.

I'll have to quit school and go someplace

where people don't know who I am.

The cure forjuvenile delinquency is...

an education in the dangers

and consequences...

of breaking the time-tested rules...

laid down for the regulation

of human conduct.

The idea that men need sex...

is a lie.

If it were true...

the boy who exercises

his sex organs regularly...

would achieve the greatest

sexual experiences in later life.

Whereas, in fact, that boy

is likely to be sexually dead...

by the time he reaches adulthood.

Abstinence poses no difficulty...

for the college-age male.

Men don't reach their sexual peak

until the age of 40.

It is the lower-class male...

often Negro...

who finds it difficult

to control his urges.

However, perfect inhibition...

although an ideal to be striven for...

is not always achievable.

Stress and the worries of the day...

can lead to a weakening of resolve...

opening the door to temptation.

When tense at bedtime...

I find there are

little tricks to relaxing.

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Bill Condon

William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American screenwriter and director. He wrote and directed the films Gods and Monsters (1998), Kinsey (2004), and Dreamgirls (2006), wrote the screenplay for Chicago (2002), and directed the final two installments of the Twilight series (2011, 2012), and Beauty and the Beast (2017). Condon won an Academy Award as screenwriter for Gods and Monsters; he was also nominated for his screenplay for Chicago. His work in television includes directing pilot episodes for several series. more…

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