#the kinsey report

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Alfred Kinsey

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Rosemary's Baby, 1968, dir. Roman Polanski

[oldshowbiz]

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What do you think of the Kinsey scale? I've seen some lgbt people oppose the idea that sexuality can be defined by a numbered scale like that.

The Kinsey Reports played an important role in challenging the prevailing sexual mores of the late 1940s (for men) and early 1950s (for women). They were among the first widely read 'scientific reports' on human sexuality that didn't see homosexual activity - not homosexuality as an innate orientation - as a symptom of a mental disorder requiring correction.

But the Kinsey Reports are product of their time, and I see the Kinsey scale as more of a hindrance than a help in the 21st century. I can't speak on the LG or heterosexual experience with the scale, but I think it:

Artificially differentiates between bisexual people based on our sexual history, for example, by reinforcing the idea that we're just "basically straight" or "basically gay."

Implies our sexuality is a spectrum, and not a discrete orientation like homosexuality and heterosexuality. I personally find all the discussions around "trying bisexuality" and "using bisexuality as a stepping stone" and "are you a straight or gay bisexual" comments really tired and offensive.

Obscures biphobia. I've written a little bit about this ages ago, but I think LGBT activism falls into the same traps as many other forms of social activism (outside of feminism) - it assumes that all discrimination and harm occur in the 'public' sphere (as hate crimes, denial of goods, services, and employment, and/or restrictive laws) (biphobia is overwhelmingly felt in the 'private' sphere, where we face the highest rates of domestic violence, addiction, and homelessness). The Kinsey scale encourages people to see bisexuality as a 'spectrum' between 'straight' and 'gay' and that, as a consequence, makes it harder to acknowledge how our discrete orientation can - and does! - impact our lives.

Sorry, this turned into a little bit of a rant. I don't think the Kinsey scale is a useful way of approaching sexuality, particularly when used to classify bisexuals... (I'd be delighted if any heterosexual, gay or lesbian people wanted to add something about how they understand the scale!).

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[maryrouille]

A savage woman 🍊

Ethnographer Bronisław Malinowski, in his monograph The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, published in 1929, which initiated the social anthropology known today, describes the erotic fun the natives of the Trobriand Islands.

It is called kamali and involves the girl inflicting bodily pain on her partner. For a boy, it is an expression of passion, temperament and love, which can be compared to the role played by a kiss in Western cultures. A girl in love can hurt her beloved by scratching, beating, biting or using a sharp instrument, and he happily accepts these attacks and is proud of his wounds.

Erotic pain infliction does not only occur early in the pairing of young Trobrianders. When the love caresses become more passionate, the couple freely begins to use their teeth to bite each other's lips, bite the cheek, or pinch the nose and chin. Drinking blood from mutilated lips, even pulling out hair and nibbling at eyelashes (also catching each other's lice and eating them!) is part of intimate, unwitnessed lovemaking and a mutual expression of passion.

What is worth noting is that the woman, based on Malinowski's observations of wounds on men's bodies, is more active when exchanging painful caresses. 

(The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia, B. Malinowski, New York 1929, pp. 252, 256-257, 333)

While studying this passage, I began to wonder if all women bite more often and are more bloodthirsty? The 1953 Kinsey Report found that men and women were almost equally sexually aroused by being bitten (55% of women and 50% of men had an erotic reaction after being bitten by their partner). I also came across information that Marilyn Monroe was known to draw blood by biting the lips of her partners. Again, I can't confirm this, so what do you think?

[nimuetheseawitch]

I'm really glad that Rosemary's Baby made sure we saw that the Woodhouse's had both of Kinsey's books on sexuality.

[hyenaswine]

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Alfred Kinsey

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This documentary shows how "The Kinsey Reports" have been used to change the laws concerning sex crimes in America, resulting in the minimal sentences so often given to rapists and pedophiles. Further explained is that the Kinsey data laid the foundation for sex education -- training teachers, psychologists and even Catholic priests in human sexuality. What has been the consequence? And what was Kinsey's research really based upon? Working secretly in his attic, Dr. Kinsey was one of America's original pornographers. His influence inspired Hugh Hefner to launch Playboy Magazine - the "soft" approach to porn - which in time would escalate the widespread use of pornography through magazines, cable TV and the Internet. In 2006 the California Child Molestation & Sexual Abuse Attorneys reported that: "The number of victims of childhood sexual abuse and molestation grows each year. This horrific crime is directly tied to the growth of pornography on the Internet." Perhaps most disturbing, Alfred Kinsey has been accused of training pedophiles to work with stopwatches and record the responses of children being raped - all in the name of "science." Among his workers was a Nazi pedophile whose relationship to Kinsey was exposed in a German court. The information from these crimes was then recorded in "Table 34" of Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. How can lawmakers use such a document to define the moral parameters of our society?

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What was the first piece of furniture you bought?

What proportion of your meals do you cook?

Foaming hand soap or normal hand soap?

Favorite chore?

Least favorite chore?

Most precious thing one of your pets has destroyed?

Any groceries you've been getting into lately?

What cleaning product do you swear by?

What's your emotional support craft?

Youtube, cable TV, or streaming?

What's something you saved up for and then regretted buying?

How many cups can you see from where you're sitting?

Which filter are you most likely to go "eh, it's probably fine" when you find out you need to change it?

How often do you take baths?

Do you go down each aisle when you grocery shop, or only the ones you know you need stuff from?

Where do you go when you need to get out of the house but it's raining?

What's a movie you saw recently that you liked?

Pro or anti tchotchkes?

What's your go-to tape?

What's in your freezer right now?

Last concert you attended?

Favorite grocery store?

Paper bags, plastic bags, or reusable bags?

Do you get your government mandated 8 hours every night?

Favorite old person activity?

Would you rather sit on the porch drinking sweet tea or sit by the lake drinking beers?

Do you prefer Boardgame Night, Build-Your-Own-Pizza Night, or Movie Night with your friends?

Be honest, do you like all of the pictures of their babies that your friends send you?

Go-to holiday card format?

How many pairs of scissors do you own?

Do you still own your first car?

How do you take your morning coffee/tea?

What's something you collect?

What's your commute like?

Aisle at the grocery store you never bother walking down?

Do you keep a daily journal or agenda?

Do you still listen to the same music you listened to in high school?

What's the last filter you changed?

What little treat do you always get when you run errands?

Grocery list or no grocery list?

What's the oldest thing you own?

What's an unjustifiably expensive appliance that you really want?

Favorite book you've read recently?

Honest feelings on Settlers of Catan?

What's something you wish you had more time for?

What kind of stuff do you keep on the door of your refrigerator?

Lamps or overhead lighting?

If you could build your home from scratch, what outrageous feature would you want to build into it?

Do you bring a bag with you everywhere you go?

Pro or anti throw pillows?

How many blankets do you keep in your living room?

Did your relationship with your parents get better when you stopped living with them?

What's worse, the DMV or the Social Security Office?

Do you decorate your house for holidays? Which ones?

Favorite high-effort meal that you make?

Favorite low-effort meal that you make?

Do you tend to bring an appetizer, entree, dessert, or drinks to a potluck?

What kind of bag do you use for your bag full of bags?

If you died and your ghost was stuck in the outfit you're wearing right now for the rest of time, would you be happy with it?

Do you have an opinion on your local weather reporter?

Do you have a favorite brunch spot?

Where are you on the minimalism-maximalism kinsey scale?

Opinion on Bath and Body Works?

Last time you visited a farmer's market?

Anything you're procrastinating on right now?

Do you get your taxes in as soon as possible, at the last minute, or late?

Do you keep any stuffed animals on your bed?

Are your garbage bags scented or unscented?

What are you looking forward to next week?

[oldshowbiz]

One Plus One (1961) a low-budget B-movie made by radio savant Arch Oboler, which was based on the Kinsey Report.

[queerism1969]

Notable transgender people from history

Here's the list I put together for when people on non-trans subreddits claim we didn't exist until recently:

Ashurbanipal (669-631BCE) - King of the Neo-Assryian empire, who according to Diodorus Siculus is reported to have dressed, behaved, and socialized as a woman.

Elagabalus (204-222) - Roman Emperor who preferred to be called a lady and not a lord, presented as a woman, called herself her lover's queen and wife, and offered vast sums of money to any doctor able to make her anatomically female.

Kalonymus ben Kalonymus (1286-1328) - French Jewish philosopher who wrote poetry about longing to be a woman.

Eleanor Rykener (14th century) - trans woman in London who was questioned under charges of sex work

[Thomas(ine) Hall](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas(ine)_Hall) - (1603-unknown) - English servant in colonial Virginia who alternated between presenting as a woman and presenting as a man, before a court ruled that they were both a man and a woman simultaneously, and were required to wear both men's and women's clothing simultaneously.

Chevalier d'Eon (1728-1810) - French diplomat, spy, freemason, and soldier who fought in the Seven Years' War, who transitioned at the age of 49 and lived the remaining 33 years of her life as a woman.

Public Universal Friend (1752-1819) - Quaker religious leader in revolutionary era America who identified and lived as androgynous and genderless.

Surgeon James Barry (1789-1865) - Trans man and military surgeon in the British army.

Berel - a Jewish trans man who transitioned in a shtetel in Ukraine in the 1800's, and whose story was shared with the Jewish Daily Forward in a 1930 letter to the editor by Yeshaye Kotofsky, a Jewish immigrant in Brooklyn who knew Berel

Mary Jones (1803-unknown) - trans woman in New York whose 1836 trial for stealing a man's wallet received much public attention

Albert Cashier (1843-1915) - Trans man who served in the US Civil War.

Harry Allen (1882-1922) - Trans man who was the subject of sensationalistic newspaper coverage for his string of petty crimes.

Lucy Hicks Anderson (1886–1954) - socialite, chef and hostess in Oxnard California, whose family and doctors supported her transition at a young age.

Lili Elbe (1882-1931) - Trans woman who underwent surgery in 1930 with Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, who ran one of the first dedicated medical facilities for trans patients.

Karl M. Baer (1885-1956) - Trans man who underwent reconstructive surgery (the details of which are not known) in 1906, and was legally recognized as male in Germany in 1907.

Dr. Alan Hart (1890-1962) - Groundbreaking radiologist who pioneered the use of x-ray photography in tuberculosis detection, and in 1917 he became one of the first trans men to undergo hysterectomy and gonadectomy in the US.

[Louise Lawrence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lawrence_(activist)) (1912–1976) - trans activist, artist, writer and lecturer, who transitioned in the early 1940's. She struck up a correspondence with the groundbreaking sexologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey as he worked to understand sex and gender in a more expansive way. She wrote up life histories of her acquaintances for Kinsey, encouraged peers to do interviews with him, and sent him a collection of newspaper clippings, photographs, personal correspondences, etc.

Dr. Michael Dillon (1915-1962) - British physician who updated his birth certificate to Male in the early 1940's, and in 1946 became the first trans man to undergo phalloplasty.

Reed Erickson (1917-1992) - trans man whose philanthropic work contributed millions of dollars to the early LGBTQ rights movement

Willmer "Little Ax" Broadnax (1916-1992) - early 20th century gospel quartet singer.

Peter Alexander (unknown, interview 1937) - trans man from New Zealand, discusses his transition in this interview from 1937

Christine Jorgensen (1926-1989) - The first widely known trans woman in the US in 1952, after her surgery attracted media attention.

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy (1940-present) - Feminist, trans rights and gay rights activist who came out and started transition in the late 1950's. She was at Stonewall, was injured and taken into custody, and had her jaw broken by police while in custody. She was the first Executive Director of the Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project, which works to end human rights abuses against trans/intersex/GNC people in the prison system.

Sylvia Rivera (1951-2002) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer and community worker in NYC; co-founded STAR, a group dedicated to helping homeless young drag queens, gay youth, and trans women

Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992) - Gay liberation and trans rights pioneer; co-founded STAR with Sylvia Rivera

[elierlick]

Don't get me wrong, the Kinsey Reports were deeply flawed and used questionable research practices. However, they do point to the ridiculousness of today's moral panic over new studies finding 10-25% of Gen Z is queer. I'm more concerned about why that number is still so low.

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