On Movies & Media

Fun Facts About Kinsey

I’m a film critic, not a historian or a psychology student. But I’m curious about the historical accuracy of any biopic.

Jeffrey Overstreet

07 Dec 2004 • 2 min read

Filed under: On Movies & Media • Kathy Shaidle • Kinsey • Relapsed Catholic • Biopics

The project staff of the Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University, August 1953. [Image: Smithsonian Institution, via Wikimedia Commons]

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While the mainstream press writes off the Kinsey-backlash as merely a sign of paranoia and hysteria from religious media, those paying attention to what some of those Christian-media critics are saying are having quite a chuckle as they discover historical details that the movie ignores.

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