Alfred Kinsey: Father Of The Sexual Revolution

Alfred Kinsey was an important figure during the sexual revolution, this is because he was often called the “father of the sexual revolution” because of his studies about American sexual behaviour. Kinsey and some of this colleagues did a serious study on the sexuality of people in America, and in 1948 published their results which left the states in awe (Macionis, J., & Gerber, L. 2012). However, years later another scientist named Edward Laumann also studied the sexual behaviour of Americans, he and his colleagues’ research turned out to be more reliable than that of Kinsey because as Laumann said in Thermidor in the Sexual Revolution “Professor Kinsey and the horde of popularizers and soi-disant researchers who followed in his wake were not neutral observers but cheerleaders, exhorting us to emigrate to a
They believe that both men and women (but mostly women) should be abstinent until marriage because sex is only supposed to be for a husband and wife to enjoy together, as it was to “define the bond between the couple, who become one flesh, and as the means of creating new life” (Women and conservativism after the sexual revolution. 2005). As it says in the article WOMEN AND CONSERVATISM AFTER THE SEXUAL REVOLUTION conservatism was very serious back in the 60’s: “The purpose, then, of conservative sexual ethics is to uphold the integrity of the family. Adultery is forbidden. Divorce is a failure and a shame. And the business of the young is to find lifelong mates. Pregnant girls didn’t show themselves at school. Co-ed dorms at college were as yet unheard of, and female students had curfews. Premarital sex was furtive, shaking up rare, and the near universal birth control for the unmarried was the old standby a friend calls “my mother would kill me” (Women and conservativism after the sexual revolution.