So here at IU we?ve got this Kinsey Institute. This is some sort of anniversary year, so if you?re in Bloomington you?ll probably soon be inundated with promotional material talking about how special this is. I know this? because Tyler knows this. No? I know this ?cause I read about it in Time. See, Time magazine reports on things at IU before they even happen, meanwhile just two issues ago I read about this ?revolutionary? trend of smoking street-side hookas at UCLA, which I was doing, like, three years ago. And they say there?s no liberal bias in the media!

So Kinsey, apparently, is still controversial, right? So I?m here at IU and I don?t see any controversy. So maybe this is one instance of Time trying to wag the dog as far as news is concerned. But, I have no doubt that Kinsey was controversial, back in the day. After all, he was seriously into watching people fuck. So, just think, without this pioneer, today there would be no Internet as we know it. We?d probably all be typing in German, jah?

I had an English professor once who was so perceptive about language that in his spare time he was an expert witness in trials, testifying about whether or not someone had written something based on the words that were used, the style of punctuation, etc. This guy told me that writing about people fucking was one of the hardest things for a writer to do, on account of the fact that, if you write about it objectively, it seems really animalistic but if you make it seem otherwise it?s not really accurate. It?s a lot easier, he said, to write about just afterwards because everything is more lucid.

But Kinsey didn?t really take the easy way out. He was concerned with people actually doing it, and to that end, he must have thought that people are pretty bizarre animals. Both from a design standpoint?i.e, given the way we walk, who would have thought to put the genitals there?and from a social perspective?the origin of the term business-like sex, for example. Or the fact that yesterday I was part of a posse that engaged in an impromptu supply-gathering ?dildo run? to the local adult bookstore. But just maybe the weirdest thing would be that some people have turned sex into video games.