Starting from the atmosphere created by this film, at first, Kinsey had a strong interest in the diverse nature in childhood, which prompted him to disobey his father's order when he was a teenager, insist on his own opinion, and enter the university to study biology. As a family background, his father, a conservative Methodist, adhered to the old morality of stubborn dogma, denounced the continuous degradation of love relationships caused by modern civilization, and sowed the earliest awareness of sex in his heart. .
After completing his studies, for more than ten years, Kinsey has been studying a kind of gall bee that ordinary people have no interest in and have never even heard of. He turned his attention to and research on sex. On the one hand, due to personal experience, he and his wife encountered obstacles in their newly married life. At that time, this kind of issue was quite sensitive and was regarded as taboo. On the other hand, it was a He noticed that there are not a few people who have encountered similar problems, and people are very ignorant of these problems. What is more terrible than ignorance is distortion, ignoring the objective facts of biology, and still focusing on guiding and dealing with practical problems from religious teachings.
Kinsey's dedicated and rigorous scholarly style exploded. Once he started a job, he devoted himself to the research with extraordinary energy. Because this time he is no longer studying gall bees, but real people, all kinds of human sexual behaviors, his prudent academic tone is too funny when he strikes up a conversation in the lower Liba people's place. However, there are always strangers who are willing to cooperate, who are willing to tell their own pain, and who are willing to spare others the pain they have suffered. At the time, sexuality research was still a wild and uncultivated field, and the field had always been deeply morally conditioned. Talking or researching, even if it was only a statement of objective reality, was regarded as shameful and obscene, and it was better to keep it under wraps. Kinsey not only used academics to tear off the euphemistic fig leaf, but also launched a large-scale investigation to collect factual evidence to find out the real situation.
When he went further and further in academic enthusiasm and perseverance under the guidance of this line of thinking, he did not live in a vacuum. Subtle dissonances occurred with his family, colleagues, patrons, and the world around him. When a scholar engages in academia for a long time, just like a person living in a certain cultural environment for a long time, he will cultivate a strong disciplinary unconsciousness, and at the same time, he will also unconsciously master the very rich and complex methods of ordinary people. At the dinner table, the family's homely conversation during dinner, imagine how shocking such a conversation took place in the 1940s. When his son Bruce couldn't listen to his father's righteous and normal people should distinguish the occasion of the high-level talk about sexual matters, he couldn't help but think of the generational change. This situation is similar to the quarrel between Kinsey and his father. Everyone believes that they are right.
Adhering to his loyalty to academics and his own theory, Kinsey crossed the moral bottom line and had a same-sex relationship with his assistant. This undoubtedly caused great harm to his wife. Kinsey and his wife are academic fellows who have been through thick and thin in academic exploration for many years, but Kinsey's frankness in following his own sexual orientation makes sense in academic logic. Under the ethical and emotional standards, it is indeed a serious derailment, even in Mrs. In the face, it is not suitable to justify with reason. How, then, should the line be drawn between academic spirit and ethical conduct? In order to be a qualified father and a qualified husband, Jin Sairu had better be wise to disagree with his words and deeds on certain matters; however, saying one thing and doing another is really contrary to his kind of academic spirit. Perhaps in the eyes of those who truly pursue academia, the former is the rule that governs everything, and there is no need to draw a clear line between the two.
For a long time, science was considered to be able to break down ignorance and be beneficial to human existence. Through statistical facts, Kinsey has indeed dispelled the superstitions of many ignorant people, but at the same time, he has also shaken out many staggering heresies. When interviews come into contact with incest, pedophilia, abuse, etc., sit down and remain academically calm, or even judge these realities with academic logic, affirming some things that are against human ethics, and according to academic rules not to disclose any private information, do not go to Reporting some people is contradictory. Scholars are supposed to have higher moral concerns than the general public, but breaking certain boundaries makes scholars slip into the leading position of corrupting morality. Of course, the boundary between normal and abnormal is constantly changing, and ethics and morality are also constantly changing, and it is difficult to clarify in a thousand words.
Social science is different from medicine, physiology, anatomy, or health nutrition to which we can draw analogies. It is a discipline in which the researcher cannot be completely isolated, and the researcher himself forms part of the object of his research, regardless of this reflexivity. How large and small is sexuality in specific situations. Other professions and disciplines certainly have professional ethics, but unlike social and humanities, dealing with the relationship between researchers and research objects constitutes a discipline in itself. What kind of relationship should be between academic pursuits and life in this world is a good one, maybe only practice, can't judge, in short, it is worth thinking about.
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