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Alfred Seguine Kinsey:
What are we to do? We turn away from matters of the flesh. We turn to things of the spirit. Lust has a thousand avenues: the dance hall, the ice cream parlor, the tenement saloon, the Turkish bath. Like the Hydra, it grows new heads everywhere. Even the modern inventions of science are used to cultivate immorality. The gas engine has brought us the automobile joy ride. And an even more pernicious menace, the roadside brothel. Electricity has made possible the degrading picture show. Because of the telephone, a young woman can hear the voice of her suitor on the pillow, right next to her! And lets not forget the most scandalous invention of all, the talon slide fastener; otherwise known as the zipper, which provides every man and boy speedy access to moral oblivion
What are we to do? We turn away from matters of the flesh. We turn to things of the spirit. Lust has a thousand avenues: the dance hall, the ice cream parlor, the tenement saloon, the Turkish bath. Like the Hydra, it grows new heads everywhere. Even the modern inventions of science are used to cultivate immorality. The gas engine has brought us the automobile joy ride. And an even more pernicious menace, the roadside brothel. Electricity has made possible the degrading picture show. Because of the telephone, a young woman can hear the voice of her suitor on the pillow, right next to her! And lets not forget the most scandalous invention of all, the talon slide fastener; otherwise known as the zipper, which provides every man and boy speedy access to moral oblivion
Full Transcript
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What are we to you, Prok?
We're just lab rats?
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Is this just another part of the project--
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to prove that sex--
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No. No, I'm sorry. Fucking is...
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nothing more than-- than
friction and harmless fun?
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Well, let me tell you,
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that is a risky game, because
fucking isn't just something.
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It's the whole thing.
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And if you're not careful,
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it will cut you wide open.
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Go home to your wife, Clyde.
She's going to need you.
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I thought the rules were clear.
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No intense romantic entanglements.
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They only make people's lives unstable.
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I guess we all can't be
as disciplined as you, Prok.
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The question of marital infidelity
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remains one of the most complicated issues facing our society today.
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Reconciliation of the
married individual's desire
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for a variety of sexual partners
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and the maintenance
of a stable marriage
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presents a problem which has not been satisfactorily resolved in our culture.
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The fact is, America
is awash in sexual activity,
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only a small portion of which
is sanctioned by society.
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Sexual morality needs to be reformed,
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and science will show the way.
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Sometimes--
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I sometimes wonder what this country would look like if...
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the Puritans had stayed at home.
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What if all the rogues and libertines
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had crossed the Atlantic instead?
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Movie Summary
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.
