*Spoiler Alert!*
So, is he normal?.... Kinsey's star "sex survey" discovery could (get this!) go (with a quick flick of the wrist) from being flaccid to erect to ejaculation in just 10 seconds flat!
Zowie! In the realm of "The Fastest Shot Around", I'd say that this guy must've been some sort of a world record holder.... Wouldn't you?
Alfred Kinsey (b. 1894/d. 1956), who is considered by many to be The Father of the Sexual Revolution, was not only a very active bisexual, but also something of a serious masochist, which seemed to stem from his stern upbringing by his tyrannical father.
Kinsey, who was initially a devoted biologist, seemed to study sex amongst humans in the same way that he studied insects (his first passion). In other words, he viewed his work from a very detached and clinical point of view.
And, so, with that in mind, it should come as no surprise to the viewer that the sex scenes shown in this fairly intriguing bio-pic contain no eroticism, whatsoever. It's all just straight out of the textbook stuff.
This film certainly seemed to suggest more than it revealed about just how much Kinsey, himself, actually participated in his own sex studies. But, it is a known fact that he regularly filmed the volunteered sex acts of his co-workers in the attic of his own home.
Throughout the mid-1940s - Out of the thousands of people (of all ages, all across the USA) who were interviewed by Kinsey and his colleagues it was surprisingly revealed (through these extensive studies) just how commonplace oral sex, homosexuality, adultery, and masturbation (which, back then, was believed to cause serious mental illness) were amongst the American population, in general.
One of this film's major downfalls was that it tried, far too earnestly, to cover too much ground in its 2-hour running time. And, with that, it seriously lost its way by the time that its last half-hour rolled around.
All-in-all - This film, which talk-talk-talks about sex like no other film around, was, for the most part, well-worth a view regardless of its flukes, its flaws and its somewhat uneven editing.
P.S.
Actor Liam Neeson was 52 (and he looked it) when he played the title character in this film. And that, in turn, rendered him as being completely unconvincing when he tried to pass himself off as the Kinsey character in his 20s and 30s.
So, is he normal?.... Kinsey's star "sex survey" discovery could (get this!) go (with a quick flick of the wrist) from being flaccid to erect to ejaculation in just 10 seconds flat!
Zowie! In the realm of "The Fastest Shot Around", I'd say that this guy must've been some sort of a world record holder.... Wouldn't you?
Alfred Kinsey (b. 1894/d. 1956), who is considered by many to be The Father of the Sexual Revolution, was not only a very active bisexual, but also something of a serious masochist, which seemed to stem from his stern upbringing by his tyrannical father.
Kinsey, who was initially a devoted biologist, seemed to study sex amongst humans in the same way that he studied insects (his first passion). In other words, he viewed his work from a very detached and clinical point of view.
And, so, with that in mind, it should come as no surprise to the viewer that the sex scenes shown in this fairly intriguing bio-pic contain no eroticism, whatsoever. It's all just straight out of the textbook stuff.
This film certainly seemed to suggest more than it revealed about just how much Kinsey, himself, actually participated in his own sex studies. But, it is a known fact that he regularly filmed the volunteered sex acts of his co-workers in the attic of his own home.
Throughout the mid-1940s - Out of the thousands of people (of all ages, all across the USA) who were interviewed by Kinsey and his colleagues it was surprisingly revealed (through these extensive studies) just how commonplace oral sex, homosexuality, adultery, and masturbation (which, back then, was believed to cause serious mental illness) were amongst the American population, in general.
One of this film's major downfalls was that it tried, far too earnestly, to cover too much ground in its 2-hour running time. And, with that, it seriously lost its way by the time that its last half-hour rolled around.
All-in-all - This film, which talk-talk-talks about sex like no other film around, was, for the most part, well-worth a view regardless of its flukes, its flaws and its somewhat uneven editing.
P.S.
Actor Liam Neeson was 52 (and he looked it) when he played the title character in this film. And that, in turn, rendered him as being completely unconvincing when he tried to pass himself off as the Kinsey character in his 20s and 30s.