Popular Culture
The Kinsey Report was mentioned in Cole Porter's contemporaneous song, "Too Darn Hot", for his musical Kiss Me Kate (1948) - "According to the Kinsey Report/Every average man I know ..." (though this was altered to "the latest report" in the 1953 film).
In the February 28, 1950 episode of the television series Texaco Star Theater, the Kinsey Report is briefly referenced in a song titled "Sing the Headlines".
A reference ("Dr. Kinsey, I presume") was made in the musical film On the Town (1949), during the Natural History Museum scene around 20 minutes into the film.
In the film Easy A, Olive refers to a gay friend as "Kinsey-6 gay."
In season 5 of the television series Californication, the protagonist Hank Moody mentions the Kinsey Report as a derogatory comment directed towards the character novelist Richard Bates – Karen: "Do you want to talk about this later?" Hank: "Why? So we can get back talking about anal with the Kinsey Report over here."
In the movie Eight Days a Week, the main character reads and mentions reading the Kinsey Report.
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