Film kicks off Sex+++ documentary series
Geoffrey Berkheimer
Issue date: 2/2/09 Section: News
Kicking off their Sex+++ documentary film series, the Jane Addams Hull-House showed "Kinsey," a film about the life of pioneering sexologist Alfred Kinsey. In promoting "sex-positive" values, the series is a continuation on Jane Addams's devotion to practical sexual education.
Sex-positive ideology is the idea that all forms of consensual sex should be embraced. Sex positive puts sexual identities of gay, straight, transexual, lesbian, non-monogamous and BDSM lifestyles into a mutual community of acceptance.
The sexual awareness being promoted in the Sex+++ series is a continuation on the work of Alfred Kinsey. In fact, it is widely believed that the female, gay and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s could not have been possible without Kinsey's contribution to the field of sexual science.
Kinsey lived in a time when sexuality was considered acceptable only between one husband and one wife. Through the course of his extensive scientific research, Kinsey came to believe in the possibility of a sexual utopia, allowing people to remove emotion from sex and allowing people to experiment freely with a wide variety of sexual experiences, even in the context of marriage.
Alfred Kinsey was the golden boy of a Methodist Preacher, turned straight-laced, bow-tie wearing professor of zoology at Indiana University. After his first, unsuccessful sexual experiences with his wife, Kinsey found that there was almost no scientific data on the topic of human sexuality.
Kinsey began teaching a marriage course at the university, founded on the idea that sexual ignorance leads to suffering, and a healthy sexual education leads to happy marriages. Kinsey's course was an enormous hit and he began recording the sexual histories of his students and faculty members.
Drawing on his scientific understanding that nature is infinitely diverse, he set out across the country to prove that human sexuality was equally varied. His hypothesis proved correct.
Sex-positive ideology is the idea that all forms of consensual sex should be embraced. Sex positive puts sexual identities of gay, straight, transexual, lesbian, non-monogamous and BDSM lifestyles into a mutual community of acceptance.
The sexual awareness being promoted in the Sex+++ series is a continuation on the work of Alfred Kinsey. In fact, it is widely believed that the female, gay and sexual liberation movements of the 1960s could not have been possible without Kinsey's contribution to the field of sexual science.
Kinsey lived in a time when sexuality was considered acceptable only between one husband and one wife. Through the course of his extensive scientific research, Kinsey came to believe in the possibility of a sexual utopia, allowing people to remove emotion from sex and allowing people to experiment freely with a wide variety of sexual experiences, even in the context of marriage.
Alfred Kinsey was the golden boy of a Methodist Preacher, turned straight-laced, bow-tie wearing professor of zoology at Indiana University. After his first, unsuccessful sexual experiences with his wife, Kinsey found that there was almost no scientific data on the topic of human sexuality.
Kinsey began teaching a marriage course at the university, founded on the idea that sexual ignorance leads to suffering, and a healthy sexual education leads to happy marriages. Kinsey's course was an enormous hit and he began recording the sexual histories of his students and faculty members.
Drawing on his scientific understanding that nature is infinitely diverse, he set out across the country to prove that human sexuality was equally varied. His hypothesis proved correct.
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Jennifer
posted 2/03/09 @ 1:08 PM CST
and the Kinsey Institute still carries on research today on sexual behavior. Check out our sex information site, www.Kinseyconfidential.org
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