Conservative groups denounce "Kinsey" film, claim female orgasm "just a theory"

NEW YORK - Indignant conservative groups are protesting this week's opening of the film "Kinsey," denouncing it as propaganda seeking to glorify the researcher they blame for inspiring the sexual revolution.

"Alfred Kinsey is responsible in part for my generation being forced to deal face-to-face with the devastating consequences of high expectations in bed due to his blasphemous lies masquerading as science," said Brandi Swindell, head of a college-oriented group called Generation Life that plans to picket theaters showing the film.

"Instead of being lionized, Kinsey's proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele, Russ Meyer or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist," said Robert Knight, director of Concerned Women of America's Culture & Family Institute. "The very idea that godly wives and mothers have sexual desires like men is an insult to womanhood everywhere."

Focus on the Family, an influential Christian ministry based in Colorado Springs, Colo., said in a review of the film that "Kinsey" mocks Christianity and condones immorality.

"To say that it is rank propaganda for the sexual revolution and the homosexual agenda would be beyond stating the obvious," wrote reviewer Tom Neven. "It has also put ideas in the heads of women who are better suited to thinking about the place in this world as good mothers, not as whores in the gutter."

Focus on the Family and its allies blame Kinsey for a host of ills — including clearing a path for candid, comprehensive sex education programs espoused by organizations like the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States, and encouraging women to consider themselves sexual creatures on par with men.

A SIECUS spokeswoman, Adrienne Verrilli, said the sexual revolution of the 1960s would have happened even without Kinsey, as the birth control pill became widely available, Playboy magazine grew in popularity, and the feminist movement encouraged women to rethink their roles and relationships.

"If this was a true documentary, they would have included more negative information, like how people gave up reading the Bible after dinner and started having sex," Swindell said. "They're sugarcoating the issue, trying to make him look like a genius who all of humanity should be grateful for."

"A film could have been produced that would have shown that side of Kinsey but also shown the hell that he released," Peters added. "That's part of Kinsey's legacy — AIDS (news - web sites), abortion, the high divorce rate, sex toys, microwave dinners, children's television, women who wear ties, Marlene Dietrich, reality shows where gay men help straight men dress themselves, pornography — and there's not anything in the film to connect him with it."


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