Slen, I too am amazed at all the hullabaloo. Although I differ with you on the fact that I think it was a great movie, I do concur with you that we are being way too defensive about sexuality.
The fact that we are now in the midst of a huge swing of the pendulum back to the religious right has a lot to do with it. As we know, during the 90s, under the Democratic presidency, the pendulum swung to the left. It's and ebb and flow. People's reactions to movies is always a way of asserting their beliefs. Just look at the controversy of Fahrenheit 9/11. Conservatives hated it, liberals loved it (for the most part).
Check out some of the comments about Kinsey:
"Kinsey's proper place is with Nazi doctor Josef Mengele," says Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America.
"That's part of Kinsey's legacy: Aids, abortion, the high divorce rate, pornography." Focus on the Family's film critic Robert Peters of Morality in Media.
Tom Neven, calls the movie "rank propaganda for the sexual revolution and the homosexual agenda".
"a legacy of massive venereal disease, broken hearts and broken souls". Judith Reisman, who has waged a decades-long war against Kinsey's memory, refers to
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