Quotes from "Kinsey" 2004 (great movie, highly recommend)-
1) Kinsey and his wife:
- But I'm not sure I understand. Haven't I always been open to whatever you wanted?
- It's not you, Mac. You're the best partner any man could have.
- I'm just not enough. Is that it?
- Please, Mac. This is inside of me. To what extent, I don't know. But I'd be a hypocrite if I pretended it wasn't there. When I took your history...
- Don't! Don't!
- …didn't you admit to having sexual feelings for other men?
- Don't use that against me!
- I'm sorry. But what keeps you from acting on your feelings? Convention.
- No! It's our marriage! It's our children!
- Exactly. Social restraints.
- Did you ever stop to think that perhaps those restraints are there to keep people from hurting each other? I don't sleep with other men because I love you and I don't want to hurt you.
- But what if it didn't hurt me?
- Then I'd be hurt.
- You're just afraid that I won't love you anymore, which is impossible, Mac. The human animal is capable of all kinds of sexual expression. Not all sex has to be sanctioned by love, enriched by emotion.
- To the Greeks…
- Stop! Stop lecturing, Prok. Stop using science to justify what you've done.
2) Kinsey's assistant:
- What are we to you, Prok? We're just lab rats? Is this just another part of the project to prove that sex, no, no, I’m sorry, fucking, is nothing more than friction and harmless fun? Well, let me tell you, that is a risky game because fucking isn’t just something, it’s the whole thing. And if you are not careful, it will cut you wide open.
1) Kinsey and his wife:
- But I'm not sure I understand. Haven't I always been open to whatever you wanted?
- It's not you, Mac. You're the best partner any man could have.
- I'm just not enough. Is that it?
- Please, Mac. This is inside of me. To what extent, I don't know. But I'd be a hypocrite if I pretended it wasn't there. When I took your history...
- Don't! Don't!
- …didn't you admit to having sexual feelings for other men?
- Don't use that against me!
- I'm sorry. But what keeps you from acting on your feelings? Convention.
- No! It's our marriage! It's our children!
- Exactly. Social restraints.
- Did you ever stop to think that perhaps those restraints are there to keep people from hurting each other? I don't sleep with other men because I love you and I don't want to hurt you.
- But what if it didn't hurt me?
- Then I'd be hurt.
- You're just afraid that I won't love you anymore, which is impossible, Mac. The human animal is capable of all kinds of sexual expression. Not all sex has to be sanctioned by love, enriched by emotion.
- To the Greeks…
- Stop! Stop lecturing, Prok. Stop using science to justify what you've done.
2) Kinsey's assistant:
- What are we to you, Prok? We're just lab rats? Is this just another part of the project to prove that sex, no, no, I’m sorry, fucking, is nothing more than friction and harmless fun? Well, let me tell you, that is a risky game because fucking isn’t just something, it’s the whole thing. And if you are not careful, it will cut you wide open.
