Lifestyles of the poor and nameless

Remember that song by Salt-'N-Pepa back in the day? So "over the top" at the time, but so benign given the stuff on the radio today.

I'm reminded of this song because I watched the movie Kinsey starring Liam Neeson last night. It is the true story of the original "Sex doctor", Dr. Kinsey, in the late 1950s.

It's amazing to see how much society has evolved (or devolved depending on your stance) in such a short time. In the movie, they were actually teaching college-aged males that abstinence was "the way". Of course, after hearing the stories of others and enduring his own miserable attempts at sex, Dr. Kinsey became convinced that the world had to know the truth about sex. We may think that the sexual revolution occurred sometime around Woodstock, but if there's any credibility to this movie, an old man named Kinsey was actually the start of it all.

One particular scene stood out out in my mind: A married couple went to Dr. Kinsey for advice about their sex life. The woman was completely convinced that she must be "frigid" because she just couldn't get into it. Dr. Kinsey asked her husband: "do you ever use your fingers to stimulate your wife?" to which the husband said something like "no. Why would I do that? We're married, you know? I can just get right to it." I think I snorted at that point.

A little later in the conversation, Dr. Kinsey asked if the husband performed oral sex on his wife. He looked at his wife, then at Dr. K. and said in a hushed tone: "we want to have kids some day. We heard that can mess things up if you're trying to have kids."

It's an interesting movie. That's all I'll say about that.