ShortHand: Kinky Sex in '50s America - The Kinsey Scale
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
“The Kinsey Reports” – Alfred Kinsey’s 1950s studies into how people like to have sex, and with who – did a lot more than ruffle a few feathers. Even acknowledging that some of us like a bit of light biting or partner-swapping was enough to make headlines. The rest was enough to blow conservative America’s minds…
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, and welcome to sex town. |
| 0:17.6 | Population, everybody, all the time. |
| 0:38.1 | Yes, I mean, you're quite right and what a way to kickstart january dry jan not here uh-uh no it's a wet and wild one positively moist jam sexy sexy times this you know what i was going to tell a fact, but I'm going to save it for later. |
| 0:39.2 | Tees. |
| 0:44.3 | For as long as there has been sex, there has been sexuality. |
| 0:52.8 | From the ancient Greeks to Japan and China, from Mesopotamia to Papua New Guinea, homosexuality and bisexuality spring up across the ancient world. |
| 0:56.8 | But, as the major religion spread, the critics got louder, and love came to be strictly confined to happen between a man and a woman. At the same |
| 1:02.9 | time, sex itself became more and more taboo, more sinful and shameful and unspoken. Because of that shame, |
| 1:16.2 | science didn't want to touch sex at all, and the only ideas that anyone had about sex were those swimming around in their own filthy minds that they didn't tell anyone |
| 1:20.5 | about. |
| 1:21.8 | That is, until one former zoologist held up a mirror to a buttoned-up 1940s America and reflected for the first |
| 1:30.3 | time the whole beautiful prism of human sexuality. He interviewed thousands of normal |
| 1:37.3 | Americans about their sexual histories, and the results revealed incredible truths about the way |
| 1:43.3 | people really got jigigger with it. |
| 1:46.1 | As he put it in 1948 sexual behaviour in the human male, |
| 1:50.6 | the living world is a continuum in each and every one of its aspects. |
| 1:56.8 | His findings defined in a scientific, dispassionate way, |
| 2:00.0 | not just gay, straightened by, |
| 2:02.8 | but also all the spaces in between for the first time in history. |
| 2:07.9 | And he also dared suggest that women like sex too. |
| 2:10.6 | Pause. |
| 2:11.4 | He showed exactly what America was up to in between the sheets and with who. |
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