By Selwyn Duke

If you're like most Americans, when hearing the term "sexual
revolution," you think of the 1960s. Conjured up are images of hippies
in tie-dyed t-shirts, Woodstock, rock 'n' roll, and everything else
that attended that tumultuous time in our history. Lying in contrast is
the image of the 1950s, supposedly a time of white picket fences, Leave It to Beaver,
and sexual "repression." Yet some would trace the beginning of the
sexual revolution back to that purportedly staid decade, and among
these are the creators of a new documentary, The Kinsey Syndrome.

The documentary identifies a seminal year in the sexual revolution:
1953. What happened then? Alfred Kinsey, the famous — perhaps we should
say infamous — "sex researcher" and professor at the University of
Indiana in Bloomington, issued the second volume of his research, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, a work likened to an "atomic bomb" dropped on traditional morality in America. It was a follow-up to Kinsey's 1948 work Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,
and together, they were a one-two punch, the Fat Man and Little Boy of
the new morality, helping to change the way Americans viewed their
nation — perhaps forever.

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