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 An important thing to remember when understanding the changes in relationships during the 1960s is how relationships changed not only sexually, but within marriages.

Professor Kinsey was a scientist who changed the way society thought about sex. Before Kinsey sex was never spoken about and because of this young people knew little to nothing about sex. If youths decided to ask their parents about sexual relationships they would be let down for even parents knew little to nothing about sexual intercourse. In the Kinsey report documentary we watch how even adults had little knowledge about sexual relationships. Kinsey speaks about his struggles with sexual relationships in his own life with other women. Kinsey was the first to open this conversation to the public and this brought a lot of controversy, but also peaked the interest of many.  A particularly interesting part about this documentary was learning about just how dangerous Kinsey’s work was. Dangerous in that during this time sex was not talked about and because he was bringing awareness to this topic he was receiving hatred from those who did not believe it should be discussed. In the documentary John Gagnon explains the backlash explaining “You couldn’t study sex without taking a risk, to ask people about their sex lives as an interviewer, is risky. To go to Times Square to interview husslers is risky, to rent hotels and have people come and talk to you, risky, there was nothing and anything he did that was not risk” (49:21- 49:38) 

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This website is where I intend to write about the changes in relationships from the 1950 to the 1960s. It is important to compare the two time periods to emphasize the clear difference. The 1960s were filled with change however I will solely focus on the change of relationships bot sexual and not during this time. I will use several readings and video serious I have watching over the past eight weeks as to further explain my finding and share where these comparisons are made evident.