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Professor Wrangham weighed in on his feelings about contemporary sexual mores and the troubled life of Alfred Kinsey. For Wrangham, “America nowadays is more prudish in more ways than it was 20 years ago with AIDS...
Indeed, people are still surprisingly sexually conservative in our time: gay marriage and gay, period, in most conservative circles still represent an anathema; an antiquated, often religion-bound outlook on sexual behavior still abounds among the majority of Americans. Kinsey, which touches on several sexual taboos, is going to spark several discussions on this front...
Star Liam Neeson, in perhaps the best performance of his career, seems unafraid to openly engages the sordid aspects of Kinsey’s life. Kinsey involved himself in several open sexual relationships, hetero- as well as homosexual, many of which involved coworkers at the infamous Kinsey Institute...
Wrangham acknowledges that Kinsey “was always very proper in the way he presented himself…he was always able to hide behind the fact he was a professor,” even though he was engaged in sexual activities that would make even the most contemporary liberal shutter...
Wrangham speaks with the ease of an expert on Alfred Kinsey, sliding in and out of anecdotes about the controversial professor as he discusses the film. It becomes apparent that Wrangham is interested in Kinsey on a more personal than professional level...