Here I am back to reviewing another Chris Pinto production and although I've been rightly generous in my evaluations of some of his other films, I consider this entry to be the documentarian's best -- his most important and most viewer-friendly work to date -- and yet, however highly recommended a film, *it must be noted,* one presumably intended for mature audiences only, as quite a bit of the information contained in it is unavoidably (aurally) explicit in nature.
Consider, for example, one of the claims made by the here highlighted "Kinsey Report," which concluded that children are sexual from birth; data allegedly obtained by way of 'scientific' experiments in which infants and babies less than 1 year of age were reported as having multiple orgasms when stimulated. One of Kinsey's research assistants, whose job it was to time these supposed orgasms, we are told was a practicing pedophile who, quoting the film's voiceover narrator, "kept written diaries in which he claimed to have molested more than 800 children."
Needless to say, this is deeply sobering material, with THE KINSEY SYNDROME an extremely unflattering look at a cultural icon, in Alfred Kinsey; a man who was hailed as an intellectual heavyweight and 'scientific' pioneer in his day, and whose mid-20th-century published findings are said to remain highly influential within academia and pop culture even down to our present time, despite this fact undoubtedly being little known to the general population at large.
Still, the question needs to be asked: Can one man really be responsible for weakening/destroying an entire society's moral compass? Whether it be adultery or pre-marital sex, homosexuality or good old-fashioned masturbation, the film seems to be of the view that all these practices and Christian-considered vices common to post-WW2 American/Western society can be traced to one man and ultimately one man only: the bow-tied 'Prok,' aka, Alfred Kinsey.
Interestingly, we learn that Kinsey was at one time (and maybe still is) the poster child of NAMBLA, that notorious boy-lovers association, and that his research into the sexual attitudes and practices of 'everyday Americans' (or was it for the most part of convicts?) was government-sponsored and initially funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.
THE KINSEY SYNDROME is a must-see film, jam-packed as it is with riveting content, if not culturally forbidden knowledge.
Contained within the doc is a brief mentioning of "Paidika" (1987-1995); clips from Tim Tate's 1998 British tv documentary "Secret History: Kinsey's Paedophiles"; as well as a few taken from an underground film titled "ChickenHawk: Men Who Love Boys," in which a camera crew follows a presumably non-offending pedophile -- a man quite open as to his sexual preference -- as he prowls neighborhoods observing and even approaching young boys, all the while appearing clearly aroused by and waxing lyrical over these minor objects of his voyeuristic interest. Clips from a Nickelodeon video are also included, scenes of which show a classroom-set circle of small children learning about the facts of life, as they sit and watch a teacher explain to them the proper way of putting on a condom. (Education or conditioning?) The well-known and outspoken anti-porn critic and author Dr. Judith Reisman is featured quite prominently in THE KINSEY SYNDROME as well and is, admittedly, a pleasure to listen to.
Personally, after now having sat through this rather lengthy, comprehensive, and well-researched Chris Pinto film, I think I shall have to go back and watch Hollywood's arguably distorted and sanitized 2004 "Kinsey" movie again, starring Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, to see if there's anything I might have missed learning from it the first time around.
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