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Alfred Kinsey Essay

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Alfred Kinsey changed American people’s view about sex at that time. He started a systematic and scientific research about sexuality of human. Kinsey pushed people to face and think about what is sexuality in the U.S. Kinsey broke the rules, thought out of the box and stuck to his research, even though he was under quite huge pressure from society because of ethics at that time. Kinsey wanted to tell people that everyone is different, and we should not judge others by the words of “natural” or “unnatural”, but “common” and “rare”. Kinsey realized this when he was working on the research of gall wasps. At the very beginning, Kinsey said in his class that, “The animal kingdom includes at least two million insects species, so what makes gall wasps …show more content…

It also reflected that how much people wanted and needed to understand sexuality. Through this book, Kinsey proved his view that everyone is different and we should not judge others simply by ethics. Just like he said in the film, “From a sexual standpoint, it is hard to say what is common or rare, because we know so little about what people actually do. This leaves most of us feeling anxious or guilty. Am I interested in the right things? Do I do things the normal way? Most people think that what they do sexually is what everyone does or should do. But I might remark that nearly all the so-called sexual perversions fall within the range of biologic normality. For example, masturbation mouth-genital contacts and homosexual acts are common among most mammals including humans. Society might condemn such practices on moral grounds. However, it is ludicrous to call them unnatural. But based on the first Book of Genesis and according to public opinion there is only one correct sexual equation—man plus woman equals baby. Everything else is vice…why are some cows highly sexed while others just stand there? Why do some men need orgasms a week and others almost none? Because everyone is different. The problem is most people want to be the same. They find it easier to simply ignore this fundamental aspect of the human

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