%% %% # 🎞 Condon 2004, Kinsey - **Against Masterbation** (7:20-9:00): Depicts the traditional (religious) repressive relation to sexuality, specifically masturbation, and their dependence on a lack of accurate scientific knowledge about sex. - **Kinsey's Sex Education** (37:30-39:30 / 40:15-41:30 / 55:00-57:00): Depicts the taboo nature of Kinsey's scientific investigation into sexuality alongside the social fascination with it, but also the essentialist dimension of anti-repressive discourse. - **Kinsey Institute Interviews** (1:05:20-1:08:45) Illustrates the scientific reappropriation of confession for the purportedly anti-repressive ends of a sexual taxonomy which deconstructs the idea of normalcy. - **The Dark Kinsey** (1:25:30-1:29:30): Depicts the ambivalent relation of the human scientist to morality as Kinsey interviews a pedophile who has amassed a great deal of knowledge about contemporary sexual practices. ### Info - **Summary**: "Kinsey" is a biographical drama about Alfred Charles Kinsey, a pioneer in sexology. The film chronicles Kinsey's life from his early scientific career to his controversial work in human sexuality, highlighting his struggles against societal taboos and backlash​[](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_(film))​​[](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/kinsey-2004#:~:text=,making%20enemies%20or%20behaving%20strangely)​. - **Director**: Bill Condon - **Genre**: Biographical Drama - **IMDB**: [Link to IMDB Page](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362269/)