The Kinsey Institute film archive includes: In addition to the Kinsey Institute's general collections use policy, please note the following additional policies that apply to the film archive. Oh you would think the world had come to an end. Narrator: But what the world did not yet know was that there were serious flaws in Kinsey's methodology, flaws that would come back to haunt him. "It was like living on a submarine sliding through dangerous waters on a difficult mission," one team member remarked. It was established in Bloomington, Indiana, in 1947. Eugene Brancolini, Production Assistants James Jones: I think Kinsey at a very early age began to understand that his sexual identity is complicated and that he is interested in members of the same sex. George Platt Lynes Archive And he believed that...that without guilt, and without the various pressures society brings to bear, people would lead very much freer sexual lives. If she has to serve milk and cookies in her house in something that's not a tea party, it's still her house, it's still the work that she supports and she's going to be part of it. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Biographer: Kinsey came straight out; he talked about clitorises, orgasms, penises. And he was outraged, he said, he...he said, and what happens if some little rosebud of a, of a, of a coed is also turned on, she'll go out, she'll sleep with everyone, she'll get pregnant. However he asked her and Mack was delighted. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: In the first three days he only got two histories. James Jones: Hidden beneath the mantle of science, Kinsey psychologically is always a man in opposition. Richard Remsberg, Additional Voices In most cases, titles are available for viewing. James Jones: His heart goes out to the people whose experiences are similar to his own, people who had felt conflicted in childhood, people who were made to feel guilty. Bancroft: His story was more tragic because he was so provocative in the way that he pursued it. John Tebbel: He made you feel that you were not talking about yourself, even though you were. Kinsey spoke at packed auditoriums across the country. Narrator: Kinsey put his team through a grueling process to learn the interview, which had grown to include questions for every conceivable sexual situation. For example, anything entered in this column had to do with premarital intercourse. They talk about Alfred Kinsey's data. In 1947 Kinsey founded the Institute for Sex Research at Indiana University, now simply known as The Kinsey Institute. Dianne Koronkiewicz And that surprised people but also reassured them. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: Kinsey at this time was showing slides of penis entering vagina and Thurman Rice was a burly person at the medical school was turned on by this. And they see him draw out from them the same thing that he drew out from every person he ever interviewed, which was the truth about their behavior. And perhaps one of his pitfalls is that at some point with sexual behavior, there should be some kind of moral restraints. Narrator: Adding fuel to the fire, the Rockefeller statistical team finally issued their report, two years after visiting Bloomington. Hardy: He began to be unable to sleep, so he took Nembutol. Narrator: The two teams, Kinsey's on one side, Rockefeller's on the other, met for 12 tense hours. Alice Ginott: He would start what was the earliest memory you have of having any kind of a sexual experience. But there was no doubt who was in charge. ', Man reading Kinsey's words: 'My dear Voris, now I can pick up histories five to seven a day. Kinsey immediately founded The Institute for Sex Research at Indiana and set about finding a staff of interviewers. In most cases, original prints are not available for viewing. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: He used to send Kinsey out to buy cigarettes, aged eleven, which you weren't allowed to do then any more than now. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: Alice Martin never forgave Kinsey. Chicago had confirmed his long-held belief that the principle of variation he had observed in nature also applied to human sexuality. The collections are grouped into the following categories: Historical Stag films; Peepshow; Sex Education; Animal Sex Behavior; Swedish Erotica and Art, Exploitation, and Pornographic feature films. Alfred Kinsey grew up in a world where sex education, such as it was, focused on abstention. The nickname fit. Clara Bracken MacMillen, the twenty-two-year-old daughter of Indiana school teachers, was short and plain looking, but brilliant and fiercely independent. Boyle: There is no moralizing in what he's doing. Variety therefore, became, um, fundamental to his thinking. Doctors doubted whether his heart would last until he was 20. Then he turned on the slide projector. Narrator: Galvanized by Rice, a group of faculty members brought pressure on Kinsey to stop teaching the marriage course. Nancy Farrell American womanhood masturbating? So by the time that I married my husband I was full of recrimination self-recrimination and guilt and shame and felt very isolated. The Sign of the Cross is a 1932 American pre-Code epic film produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille and released by Paramount Pictures.Based on the original 1895 play by English playwright Wilson Barrett, the screenplay was written by Waldemar Young and Sidney Buchman.It stars Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton, with Ian Keith and Arthur Hohl. Anger: It was kind of like a hula-hoop or something, it was the fad. WTIU Indiana At Berkley, 9,000 college students crowded into a hall made for half that many. But his father wouldn't hear of it. They were really dumbfounded. Consuelo Lopez Morilla and Family The film archive is available for qualified researchers for on-site viewing only. Then he started getting the building and grounds people. Danielle Mussafi But on scouting trips, he found relief from the suffocating pressure of his home life. John Tebbel, Kinsey Associate: He made you feel that you were not talking about yourself even though you were. I think he becomes more and more comfortable with the notion that science will liberate them and science will liberate him. Narrator: In fact, Kinsey had drawn nearly all of the material from the diaries of one person. In part, it was Kinsey' own uncompromising nature that made him a figure of lasting controversy. Unheard of in 1936, people almost fainted with fascination and excitement. But Kinsey worried that too many people would refuse to give their histories, leaving a sample of only those most eager to talk about sex. Having sex before marriage; adultery was illegal; in some states oral sex was illegal even within marriage; and certainly anal sex was... Narrator: Kinsey was disturbed that sexual acts he regarded as perfectly normal had been criminalized, especially homosexuality. The book starts out with a presentation of data, concerning 'answers' given by a sample population on sex-related questions. He never saw any affection between his parents. T. C. Boyle: I do feel ultimately that there is a spiritual element that Kinsey is disregarding. And then he would ask you, have you ever had intercourse. “Kinsey was a … I said, I think they should print five thousand. Phil Gaylin, Visual Effects Supervisor Narrator: Kinsey was deeply disturbed by what he found in the sexual literature. Laumann: He was able to demonstrate that ordinary, every day types of persons were doing a hell of a lot of things, and it was that characterization of the richness and diversity of human sexuality that was crucial. Alfred Kinsey was a little-known biologist at Indiana University when, in the 1940s, he began compiling exhaustive data from tens of thousands of interviews about the sexual practices of men and women. Nancy Lethem And if people knew things, they would make better decisions. Alfred was 27 years old. And I think there are a great many physicians that will want it. Publicly, he was an erudite, tweedy academic, but in private Kinsey was far more complex. A look at the life of Alfred Kinsey, a pioneer in the area of human sexuality research, whose 1948 publication "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" was one of the first recorded works that saw science address sexual behavior. Jeff Post And then suddenly this world burst on him, this homosexual underworld, which astonished him. Narrator: Alfred and Clara struggled on for months unaware that Clara had a restricted hymen, which made sex all but impossible. Bob Bayer: There was a lot of braggadocio, but uh, no, that was all bluff. American womanhood sleeping with each other? An appointment is required for viewing. And he said, sex. Narrator: Alfred Kinsey died on August 25, 1956, at the age of 62. This was his obsession. They were all different. A two-week notice is required for viewing appointments. These are lies. They regarded it as a crusade. It is a scientific gold mine. And Pomeroy was of inestimable value in demonstrating this, so Kinsey could watch and take notes. Anger: On one of my trips to Bloomington, Kinsey asked if Bill could photograph me masturbating and I said, well I have no objection, I mean. He actually thought if society wasn't so repressive, probably everybody would have been somewhere in between. T. C. Boyle: She was swept up in his enthusiasm. Alice Ginott Cohn: At that time, Indiana University was very, very repressed. It written by a doctor, who has - for the Kinsey Institute - undertaken research on sexual knowledge and sexual behaviour in the USA. Boys on campus figured out, girls who stayed two hours had had intercourse. Liana Zhou For several years, an epidemic of venereal disease had spread fear on college campuses. Undaunted, Kinsey pursued his study exactly as he wanted. Kinsey lived just long enough to see the American Law Institute's Model Penal Code, published in 1955, embrace the right of consenting adults to engage in homosexual and anal sex. Narrator: Kinsey's discovery -- that subtle differences existed in every living creature -- was the key scientific insight of his life. John Bancroft: There were relatively few uh, types of sexual activity that you could engage in which didn't break the law. Group by group, Kinsey planned to construct a picture of American sexual behavior. We both have the same impression. And I'd say from that point on I think his homosexuality became more apparent. 68 percent of males had had sex with a prostitute. Kinsey drove himself harder than ever, working deep into the night. The Kinsey Institute Collections encompass print materials, film and video, fine art, artifacts, photographs, and archives. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: At school, like sick people often are, he was bullied a lot. Paul Gebhard: The first time I ever heard about Alfred Kinsey was in Cambridge when one of my professors came up and hesaid "What do you know about the work of Alfred Kinsey?" T. C. Boyle: He looked for people who expressed absolutely no, no qualms about any sort of sexual behavior. James Jones: Kinsey's father was a patriarch, writ large. Somehow, uh in the first five minutes, you would be telling him things you had never told anybody. The statisticians returned to New York to write a report for the Foundation. James Jones: When Kinsey finishes high school, he's the valedictorian of his class, he's this bright, shining youth, and he's ready to set the world on fire. So they both got down on their knees by the cot and prayed to be relieved of this terrible sin. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: He would help these students. Gebhard: He was lying on his bed, and he wanted to say something to me, so I went over and leaned over him. If you came out after an hour, they were not interested in you. At 16, Alfred joined the Boy Scouts, which warned its young charges about the dangers of self-abuse. Kinsey, a graduate of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine (B.S., 1916), and of Harvard (doctor of science, 1920), taught zoology and botany at Harvard before joining the faculty of Indiana University as an assistant professor of zoology in 1920. Narrator: In the fall of 1939, Alfred Kinsey began actively collecting the sexual histories of Americans. And if they made better decisions, they'd make a better society and it was. National Archives Stevens Institute Archive in association with the BBC. And they, and they had nowhere to make love. Every magazine, every newspaper, carried banner headlines, huge reports. Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy: Wells gave Kinsey a choice, he said, you can, you can do the marriage course, but you must stop asking these questions, or you can give up the marriage course and continue to get your sexual histories. Jones: In boardrooms, in barbershops, at the ballpark, people standing on the corner, they talk about Alfred Kinsey's data, what does it mean, are we to believe it? The two had first met when martin was a 21-year-old undergraduate and Kinsey took his sexual history. John Tebbel: He was discovering sex was a lot bigger than people thought it was. And boy, and that was the kiss of death. Erickson: John Tukey, actually said to Kinsey that he would have, he would prefer a sample of, a probability sample of 400 to Kinsey's 18,000 interviews. Emma Ketteringham Narrator: Alfred Charles Kinsey grew up in a cold water flat in the dismal industrial town of Hoboken, New Jersey. And I knew very well that they would find Kinsey's books on the shelves, and I knew very well that they would wait until I was out of the house and turn the pages and browse and check the index, and I felt that's a reasonable way for two young women to learn these things. And it made them true believers. And I looked at that picture and I thought my god, it's a picture of me. And Kinsey said, nonsense, Gebhard, nonsense. For those which require a viewing copy be made, patrons may pay for a video to video transfer when copyright restrctions do not apply. George Egan Some said the cause was overwork; others, a deep sense of failure. Laumann: The problem is that you know the kinds of organizations he was likely to be invited to, or would invite him to do it, he was obviously not going to be invited to talk at the Pentecostal Church group, and those folks are missing. That men would have a great many more partners, but that women would as well, and he wanted to bring this into being, and so he encouraged it amongst his, amongst his team. Alex Esber, On Camera Actors For information or access please contact User Services at libknsy@indiana.edu. They were very likely to be charged by the police and sent to prison, regarded as pathological. Masturbation, extramarital contacts, homosexual contacts, every way that you can think of to have an orgasm that is not between a man and a woman in marriage, is forbidden by society. In addition, the Kinsey Institute film archive is not a stock footage library and does not provide reproductions of film footage with the exception of some archival footage of Dr. Kinsey and other Institute for Sex Research/Kinsey Institute staff, which is available for special projects. It became her obsession too. Narrator: There were charges that Kinsey had allowed his personal interests to creep into his sample. Some underclassmen donned fake wedding rings to qualify for admission and others moved up their actual wedding dates. But most of all, the narrow view of sexuality was at odds with his belief in the boundless diversity of nature. But their wedding night did not go well. Hardy: He had a family tree of thirty-six and he'd slept with seventeen of them. And of course, then was a tremendous, my sister, my wife, a tremendous uproar. To Kinsey, the case histories underscored the need for more research; to many alumni and faculty, they were proof that the professor had gone too far. And I think that slowly built sort of the fires of the reformist in him. To go to Times Square to interview hustlers: risky. He'd recorded detailed descriptions of his crimes in several cramped notebooks, which he handed over to Kinsey. Julia Ericksen: He realized that in the 1930s, the prisons were full of working class men who'd been unemployed and drifting from town to town and eventually got themselves locked up. Gagnon: Kinsey was a man who felt that truth was better than ignorance, that inquiry was better than dogma. The histories he had taken there -- of homosexuals, bisexual married men and hustlers with hundreds of partners -- revealed a range of sexual activity greater than anything he had imagined. Ken Preis His grandmother introduced him to heterosexual intercourse, his father to homosexual intercourse, he'd slept with quite literally countless men and women. John Tooker Narrator: The team took to the road, crisscrossing the country in search of interviews.
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