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The 'Kinsey - Let's talk about sex' con job : Comments

By Bill Muehlenberg, published 20/1/2005

Bill Muehlenberg argues the new movie about pioneer sex researcher, Alfred Kinsey, will encourage sex crimes.

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Right Wing Organizations
American Family Association
P.O. Box 2440, Tupelo, MS 38803
www.afa.net

Chairman/Founder: the Rev. Donald Wildmon
Vice President: Tim Wildmon (son of Donald Wildmon)
Date of founding: 1977
Membership: AFA claims over 500,000 members.
Finances: $11.4 million (2000)
Staff: About 100 employees and five full-time lawyers.
State chapters: State Directors in 21 states. Also has smaller chapters, number unknown.
Publications: “AFA Journal,” published monthly, with a circulation of 180,000.
Radio: AFA has its own 200-station network of radio stations across the United States.
Videos: AFA has produced “Excess Access,” “It’s Not Gay,” and “Suffer the Children” Television: AFA has appeared on the following shows: “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “MacNeill Lehrer Report,” “Nightline,” “The 700 Club,” “Meet the Press,” “Crossfire,” and “Focus on the Family.”
Formerly known as: National Federation for Decency
Affiliate groups: AFA Foundation, Center for Law & Policy, American Family Radio, and Agape Press

AFA’s principal issues:
American Family Association targets the media and entertainment industry’s “attack” on “traditional family values.”

Two of the main duties that AFA assigns to itself are “promoting the centrality of God in American life” and “promoting the Christian ethic of decency.”

“Indecent” influences in American culture include: television, the separation of church and state, pornography, “the homosexual agenda,” premarital sex, legal abortion, the National Endowment for the Arts, gambling, unfiltered internet access in libraries, and the removal of school-sponsored religious worship from public schools.

AFA Activities:
AFA produces the radio show, "AFA Report," a 30-minute feature available on about 1,200 local radio stations nationwide. AFA launched their broadcast ministry American Family Radio (AFR) in 1987. AFR has approximately 200 radio stations in 27 states across the country. According to American Family Radio, “AFR has built more stations in a shorter time than any other broadcaster in the history of broadcasting.” The AFA built their small radio empire by applying for “noncommercial educational licenses.” When the FCC refused to grant some the licenses the AFA sued the FCC in federal court arguing that to deny religious groups noncommercial broadcasting licenses violates their First Amendment and Equal Protection rights.

For over twenty years AFA’s primary activities have been organizing boycotts against sponsors of TV shows with “anti-Christian” messages and ideas.

AFA has created two websites,www.onemillionmoms.com and www.onemilliondads.com, to “help parents do something about the trash on TV” by organizing weekly on-line boycotts of offensive advertising or television shows.

Among its hundreds of boycott targets over the years are "Cheers," "The Johnny Carson Show," "Saturday Night Live," "Roseanne," "Nightline," "NYPD Blue," and “Ellen.” AFA has called for widespread boycotts of all businesses that “promote” pornography, homosexuality, or other forms of “indecency.”

A major target has been Disney and its subsidiaries. According to the group “Disney’s attack on America’s families has become so blatent, [sic] so intentional, so obvious, that American Family Association has called for a boycott of all Disney products until such time as this activity ceases.”

Other boycott targets include American Airlines for their policy of providing domestic partner benefits and K-mart for selling music that has a “parental advisory warning” sticker, even to adults.

Donald Wildmon has called for the shutdown of PBS and as a result of the AFA's campaign, many state legislatures reduced funding for public broadcasting. The AFA spearheaded the attack on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) in the 1980’s, using direct mail and extensive print advertising to distort the NEA's record of sponsorship of the arts.

Profiles on AFA Affiliates:
AFA Center for Law and Policy activities (CLP):

In 1990, the AFA established the AFA Center for Law & Policy as a litigation and public policy arm of the organization.

The Center for Law & Policy (CLP) is staffed by six full-time attorneys with a network of more than 400 affiliate lawyers. The CLP states that they provide representation to Christians in courts throughout the country, and advise state and federal legislators on constitutional, political and legal issues.

The CLP has been involved in several cases where they push for religious worship and symbols in public schools as well as the removal of curriculum that doesn’t reflect “traditional family values.”

Recently AFA has spearheaded a campaign to have their “In God We Trust” posters posted in every classroom, in every school in the United States. In 2001, the Mississippi state legislature passed a law requiring that each public school classroom, auditorium and cafeteria display a “In God We Trust” poster. However, when the Mississippi state legislature did not provide any funding for the bill, AFA/CLP volunteered to be the coordinator for the project. AFA/CLP is responsible for organizing and distributing 32,000 “In God We Trust” free posters in public schools in the state of Mississippi.

AFA/CLP has encouraged other states to follow Mississippi’s example, promising that anyone who may be afraid of a lawsuit would be defended by the AFA Center for Law & Policy for free. In 2001, AFA distributed 250,000 “In God We Trust” posters nationwide.

Other Legal Activities by AFA/CLP include:
CLP represented the anti-gay group “Take Back Maryland” when they were accused of falsifying signatures for a petition to reverse an anti-discrimination bill that protected gays and lesbians from bias discrimination in employment and housing.

AFA filed lawsuits attempting to ban the curriculum, "Impressions," from public school classrooms on the grounds that it "promotes the religion of witchcraft."

AFA sponsored a rally in support of Judge Roy Moore of Alabama who refused to remove the Ten Commandments from his courtroom.

AFA Center for Law & Policy (CLP) won a lawsuit on behalf of pro-life protesters in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, over protest signs confiscated and held by city officials.

AFA State Affiliates:
Many of AFA’s state chapters are very active on a state and local level. Gary Glenn of AFA Michigan has become a lightening rod in the state for controversy over civil rights protections for gays and lesbians. Glenn has opposed anti-discrimination policies of several Michigan cities by asserting that if passed, public bathrooms and showers would become co-ed. After the legislation passed in several towns, Glenn organized petitions to overturn the legislation, asserting that gays and lesbians pose a “public health hazard.” Glenn also has targeted a 4th grade environmental education course, alleging that the program is “anti-human” and promotes paganism.

AFA’s California director Scott Lively, of Abiding Truth Ministries and the Pro-Family Law Center, is an anti-gay activist who has written such books as “The Pink Swastika,” which claims that “homosexuals [are] the true inventors of Nazism and the guiding force behind many Nazi atrocities.” [From the “The Pink Swastika” preface.] Lively has also written “7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child, “ and “The Poisoned Stream: “Gay” Influence in Human History.” AFA California has launched the “California Campaign to Take Back the Schools” to stop the “homosexualization of American public schools.”

AFA Quotes:
Quotes from the Reverend Don Wildmon on behalf of AFA:

"Now the Bush Administration is opening its arms to homosexual activists who have been working diligently to overthrow the traditional views of Western Civilization regarding human sexuality, marriage and family… AFA would never support the policies of a political party which embraced the homosexual movement. Period.” (4-16-01, AFA Press Release)

“We believe the national motto incorporates the foundational belief of our culture, and its words ‘In God we trust’ are a message our children need to see in school.” (July 2001, cover story of AFA Journal)

“But the National PTA continued right along, increasingly becoming a tool to promote a left-wing philosophy instead of helping the children with their educational needs. The latest project for the National PTA is the promotion of the homosexual agenda…Stop the PTA from using your children to promote their left-wing political agenda. “AFA Journal, February 2001 Edition

From AFA staffers:

“Over the years, AFA has consistently addressed the homosexual movement's obsession with infiltrating the public school system. Its eye-opening video “It's Not Gay”, which presents a heartbreaking look at the physical and emotional consequences of the homosexual lifestyle, has been the most popular video ever produced by AFA. “ (May 2001, “Homosexuals push for control of schools”)

“Nothing disappointed the [American Family Association] more than Disney's enthusiastic embrace of [the homosexual] movement that rejects everything that is sacred to Christians about human sexuality, marriage and family.” (April 2001, “Why the Disney Boycott Shouldn't Go Away”)

From AFA state affiliates:

“The church and this nation cry out for a revival of masculine Christianity, which is to say that we church leaders need to stop being such, for lack of a better word, sissies when it comes to social and political issues. We need to spend as much time confronting perpetrators as we do comforting victims. We need to do less fretting, and more fighting for righteousness. For every motherly, feminine ministry of the church such as a Crisis Pregnancy Center or ex-gay support group, we need a battle-hardened, take-it-to-the-enemy masculine ministry like Operation Rescue (questions of civil disobedience aside). For every God-hating radical in government, academia and media we need a bold, no-nonsense, truth-telling Christian counterpart: trained, equipped and endorsed by the local church.” –Scott Lively, Director of AFA California and Abiding Truth Ministries, author of “The Pink Swastika.” (quote source: http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/archives/editorials/masculinechristianity.html)

"Under homosexual activists' political agenda, our children would face a future in which traditional marriage and families have been legally devalued, while state government -- despite the severe threat it poses to personal and public health -- not only legally endorses but uses our tax dollars to subsidize deadly homosexual behavior." –Gary Glenn, Director of AFA Michigan (2-17-01 Press Release)

courtesy of People For the American Way • 2000 M Street, NW, Suite 400 • Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 202-467-4999 or 800-326-7329 • pfaw@pfaw.or
Posted by grace pettigrew, Friday, 21 January 2005 10:02:26 PM
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Alfred Kinsey, and Judith Reisman's Dirty Little Mind
Adult Christianity, November 2004
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/index.php?s=kinsey

By Miss Poppy Dixon

The movie "Kinsey, Let's Talk About Sex," with Liam Neeson and Laura Linney, opened in selected theaters on November 12. This article is an updated version of a piece on one of Kinsey's contemporary detractors, Judith Reisman, which I originally had written and posted in 1996.

Judith Reisman

Judith Reisman was recently quoted in the Sunday Los Angeles Times as one of Alfred Kinsey's chief detractors. Indeed, she has made a career out of trying to discredit Kinsey, a career which we will review here. Reisman's work would be of little consequence were she not referenced by so many conservative Christian organizations, from the Family Research Council, to James Dobson's Focus on the Family, to Beverly LaHaye's Concerned Women of America. [1]

In the 1970s Judith Reisman was a singer on the Captain Kangaroo show. The chanteuse's career ended badly when the free-agent singer-songwriter ran headlong into modern market research and the crushing competition of what she later referred to as "the fast-action and increasing violence of cartoons on other stations." Retreating under the cover of artistic integrity she turned to academia, and a career in communications and media analysis. The fact that children's minds wandered during her music videos had to be about something other than the quality of her performance, and she was going to find out what it was.

Enter Alfred Kinsey: Reisman's personal scapegoat.

The move from kid's show celebrity to academia was not an easy one for Reisman. Intimidated by her husband, a university professor, and his colleagues, she reinvented herself as a doctor of communications, expert on pornography, and token Jewish friend of the American conservative religious right. In her Personal Odyssey she writes that the academicians she met were "...out of touch with the reality of the majority."[2]

Dr. Reisman began writing extensively on Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Her first book was self-published, by her occasionally defunct Institute for Media Education, of which whe is President. Her second Kinsey book, and another on pornography were published by Huntington House Books. Huntington House, along with its subsidiary Vital Issues Press, will publish almost any book on "conservative issues, politically incorrect exposés, christian apologetics, cults/occult, evangelism, family issues, anti-globalist issues" and "patriotism/survivalism" as it says in its appeal to prospective authors.

The sad thing is that Kinsey's books are highly accessible, written in straightforward prose interspersed with dry and witty commentary. But like that other unfortunate and unread tome, the Bible, it's become the handmaid of bloodless and shriveled interpreters.

Type Judith Reisman into the Amazon search engine and you'll see a display of out-of-print and yet-to-be-printed (World Net Daily Publishing) mentions. You can still dig up some of her books used. The obscurity of her work has not prevented her from becoming a regular writer for the right wing rag World Net Daily.

QUESTIONING REALITY

The online-only Journal of Human Sexuality, sponsored by http://www.leaderu.com/Leadership U (a spinoff of Campus Crusade for Christ), has published Reisman's essay, Kinsey and the Homosexual Revolution. The essay is comprised of 31 complex and leading questions, questions designed to prejudice the reader, questions like "...what if all of Kinsey's work was fraudulent, or worse?", and "...could not some American scientists teach pederasts and pedophiles techniques for sexually abusing children for 'science'?", and "Was Kinsey himself a closet homosexual, pedophile or pederast?"

The answer to these questions is "no," which is why they're posed as questions and not as statements. Though Dr. Reisman includes tables and footnotes, she offers no proof or support for the innuendo she directs at Kinsey. In fact, her "research methods" could call her own background into question.

In her Personal Odyssey Reisman claims that rather than accommodate the criticism of her work for the good of the Captain Kangaroo show and her child fans, she decided quit the show. But, was this the real reason? Or is this just the way Reisman chooses to cover her real crime, and deny her guilt? She IS an expert witness on child pornography and pedophilia. Could the reason Reisman was asked to leave the Captain Kangaroo show be that she molested several of her young charges? No. But this is how complex questions work. In fact, after reading this article you may have difficulty remembering what was true, and what was only asked about, and forever wonder if Reisman is, or was, herself a child molester, even though I specifically stated that she is not.

Not exactly scientific, is it?

Please read Debunking Kinsey's Table 34, wherein Miss Poppy Dixon takes apart Judith Reisman's claims against Kinsey one by one.

THE PORN STUDY

In the early 1980s "the US Justice Department had given Reisman a grant for $734,371 to study pictures in Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler." [3] Reisman used the grant to confirm her conclusion of "Kinsey's role in child sexual abuse and the link to children appearing in mainstream pornography..." [4] Dr. Reisman poured over thousands of pages of pornographic literature. She felt herself persecuted at every turn and complained of a conspiracy to derail her efforts, going so far as to blame the Kinsey Institute for her inability to get published by a legitimate publishing house. [5]

And to an extent, she was persecuted, though not for the reasons she assumed. The Reagan-appointee who had commissioned the study, Alfred Regnery (the head of the conservative publishing house, Regnery Press), admitted he had been wrong to do so. Avedon Carol writes:

It was a scientific disaster, riddled with researcher bias and baseless assumptions. The American University (AU), where Reisman's study had been academically based, actually refused to publish it when she released it, after their independent academic auditor reported on it. Dr Robert Figlio of the University of Pennsylvania told AU that, 'The term child used in the aggregate sense in this report is so inclusive and general as to be meaningless.' Figlio told the press, 'I wondered what kind of mind would consider the love scene from Romeo and Juliet to be child porn'. (Carol, 1994, p.116) [6]

Dr Loretta Haroian, the cochair of the plenary session of Child and Adolescent Sexuality at the 1984 World Congress of Sexology, an expert on childhood sexuality, commented on Reisman's work,

This is not science, it's vigilantism: paranoid, pseudoscientific hyperbole with a thinly veiled hidden agenda. This kind of thing doesn't help children at all. ... [Reisman's] study demonstrates gross negligence and, while she seems to have spent a lot of time collecting her data, her conclusions, based on the data, are completely unwarranted. The experts Reisman cites are, in fact, not experts at all but simply people who have chosen to adopt some misinformed, Disneyland conception of childhood that she has. These people are little more than censors hiding behind Christ and children." (Carol, 1994, p.116). [7]

There were difficulties in publishing the study, though Reisman tends to gloss over this fact as illustrated in the case of The State of Ohio vs. the Contemporary Art Center and Dennis Barrie (Mapplethorpe and Cincinnati). Dr. Reisman was called to testify as an expert witness.

Mezibov, the defense attorney "asks if [Reisman's] study has been published by the Justice Department. 'It is on the shelf. It was published. You can buy copies.' A series of truths, not adding up to the truth.

"Mezibov pulls out the pretrial testimony. 'You said before that there was a six-year delay, that the study was published not by the Justice Department but by Huntington Press. Would you like to change your answer?'" [8]

The Executive Summmary of Reisman's study was eventually published by Donald Wildmon's American Family Association.

KINSEY - 1, REISMAN - 0
In 1990 Reisman wrote Kinsey, Sex, and Fraud, with Edward Eichel, published by Vital Issues Press (Huntington House). Reisman describes the book on her web site claiming that "Kinsey's research involved illegal experimentation on several hundred children."

The Kinsey Institute refuted Reisman's allegations prompting a lawsuit filed in 1991 by Reisman against the Institute's then director June Reinisch and Indiana University. Reisman alleged defamation of character and slander. Reisman's attorney "withdrew from the case" in 1993, and "in June 1994 the court dismissed Reisman's case with prejudice [which means that Reisman is prohibited from refiling the suit]." [9]

Read the Kinsey Institute's response to Reisman's claims: Allegations about Childhood data in the 1948 book, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male

SHOWTIME
After almost thirty years Dr. Reisman has made it back to television..., in a way. She was recently portrayed by actress Nancy Beatty in Showtime's movie Dirty Pictures, starring James Woods. Woods plays Dennis Barrie, of the Cincinnati Arts Center. Both Barrie, and the CAC, were charged with obscenity for hosting Robert Mapplethorpe's controversial show The Perfect Moment

Nancy Beatty delivers a perfectly brittle performance, gesticulating elaborately as her character attempts to describe the way the light emphasizes a penis in one of Mapplethorpe's photographs. Woods quips to his attorney "What is this, porno for the deaf?"

Later in deliberation the jury amuses itself mimicking Beatty's performance as Reisman. Though lampooned by the left-wing, liberal media elite, in real life, despite her expert testimony, the jury consisting of midwest Ohio citizens delivered a unanimous verdict of not guilty.

HOUSE RESOLUTION 2749
In December of 1995 House Resolution 2749 was introduced to the House by Representative by Steve Stockman, [10] and 40 cohorts. The bill's short title is "Child Protection and Ethics I Education Act of 1995," while the official title offers an idea of what the bill is really about - "A bill to determine if Alfred Kinsey's 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male' and/or 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Female' are the result of any fraud or criminal wrongdoing." Reisman makes much of the bill in her curriculum vitae, "This Bill is the culmination of Dr. Reisman's 20-years of research and advocacy for children. A Senate hearing waits in the wings." It's been nine years.

Who is Representative Steve Stockman, the man who introduced HR 2749? He is a Texan swept from oblivion to the US Congress on the 1994 conservative wave. Dubbed "Congressman Clueless" by Mimi Swartz of The Texas Monthly, he described himself in an interview with the American Enterprise Organization [11],

I didn't even have a car at one point. In the summer of '80 I was living in the Ft. Worth Water Gardens. I didn't go to the government for help when I was homeless. I collected cans to earn money to eat. Hunger was a tremendous incentive to get up and work. And in the long run, it taught me the work ethic. I ended up going from a person who didn't like to work to now being called a workaholic, because I have that fear or understanding of what it's like to go hungry. I was 110 pounds and now I'm up to 208. So I caught up a lot.

Stockman later became born-again and joined socially-conservative Christians to reclaim America. In Congress he signed Newt Gingrich's Contract with America, and was known for mandatory prayer meetings for his office staff.

The religious right had high hopes for Stockman as he tried to make a name for himself by signing his first pieces of legislation - "bills designed, variously, to 'provide that human life shall be deemed to exist from conception'; to 'repeal prohibitions relating to semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity, ammunition-feeding devices'; and to determine if Alfred Kinsey's well-known books on sexual behavior are 'the result of any fraud or criminal wrongdoing.'" [12]

How much influence did Reisman's work have on this legislation? As well as being long-time Reisman supporters, Donald Wildmon of American Family Association (her ostensible employer), Gary Bauer of Family Research Council and Beverly La Haye of Concerned Women for America are also members of the ultra right-wing organization Council on National Policy founded by Tim La Haye. Who else is a member? Representative Steve Stockman. Members of the CNP donated over $35,000 to Stockman's 96 campaign via Phyllis Shlafley's Eagle Forum, the Gun Owners of America, and the Majority Leader's Fund (Dick Armey) - all members of the CNP. [13]

House Resolution 2749 died in committee. It was not debated on the floor.

Stockman was defeated in 1996, after one term, by Nick Lampson. Democrats were successful in charging that Stockman was a "right-wing extremist with ties to militia groups." [14] Perhaps now Huntington House will publish his memoirs.

SUMMARY
Let's review. First Reisman 'leaves' the Captain Kangaroo show. Then she accepts over $700K for a report that both her university and the Justice Department refuse to publish. She sues the Kinsey Institute for defamation, loses, and is forbidden to try again. She appears as an expert witness at The State of Ohio vs. the Contemporary Art Center and Dennis Barrie (Mapplethorpe and Cincinnati) and the defense has her for lunch. And finally, she supports a bill introduced by a wet-behind-the-ears, born-again freshman Congressman from Texas, which never even makes it to the floor. It's unlikely Reisman could get arrested at this point. Yet what makes her dangerous is the rarely questioned nature of her writings, and her association with ultra-conservative religious policy makers.

In Kinsey's highly readable 'Sexual Behavior in the Human Male' he writes,

It is, precisely, the function of a population analysis to help in the understanding of particular individuals by showing their relation to the remainder of the group. [Kinsey's emphasis] ...Without such a background, each individual becomes unique and unexplainable except through an elaborate investigation of him as an isolated entity. [15]

By attempting to prevent access to information about sex, social conservatives attempt to separate the individual from his social context and exploit his insecurities. By convincing an individual that his sexual interests are aberrations that grieve an ever voyeuristic God, social conservatives can control that person through both fear and guilt. Factual information about sexuality, and an individual's relation to the group, serve as a pure light - banishing ignorance and healing fear and guilt, bringing the individual back into the social milieu to which he belongs.

Kinsey has admitted that his sample was not adequate to draw firm conclusions, and longed for a more comprehensive study to be conducted in the future. But the research Kinsey provided has given people a context for their own sexuality, protecting them from the priests and witch doctors who are ever ready to pry and condemn.

Reisman's claims about the inadequacy of Kinsey's work would bear more weight if they called for new, and more comprehensive studies of sexuality. But this is not the case. Reisman and her cronies labor to outlaw any kind of informational sex education not based on conservatively interpreted biblical principles. Free of factual data on sex Dr. Reisman and her followers are at liberty to publish any kind of unsupported nonsense they choose about sex, homosexuality, and pornography.

NOTES

1) Organizational links to Reisman's works:
Family Research Council Links (The FRC site search yields only 1 link, though a Google search yields 5)
Concerned Women for America Links
Focus on the Family Links

Dr. Reisman was on the payroll of The American Family Association. This was revealed when she was called to testify in the case of The State of Ohio vs. the Contemporary Art Center and Dennis Barrie (Mapplethorpe and Cincinnati).

"Joseph hands him a copy of the A.F.A. [Donald Wildmon's American Family Association] tax return. Mezibov shows it to Reisman, uses it to establish that she has received thousands of dollars from the Reverend Wildmon's anti-porn group. Showing her a copy of an article that appeared in the Washington Times, a review in which she labeled Mapplethorpe a fascist artist, he points out that it is signed "Judith Reisman, associate research director of the American Family Association. She is an apologist for the pressure groups that provoked this trial..."
SHOWDOWN IN CINCINNATI, by James R. Peterson, March 1991

2) "Having spent the last fifteen years at a university as a professor's wife, I was both keenly aware of the regard the world had for those with advanced degrees and often disappointed in what I privately considered a lack of intellectual curiosity and vigor within the educated community. I found faculty parties and conversations somehow lacking in a basic sort of common sense, and for all their degrees, most academicians seemed to welcome being out of touch with the reality of the majority."
A Personal Odyssey to the Truth, By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D., undated.

3) "United States Department of Justice, The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Project No. 84-JN-AX-K007. Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse and Hustler Magazines. According to Reisman's site, an Executive Summary was first published by The American Family Association.

"...in 1984, the US Justice Department had given Reisman a grant for $734,371 to study pictures in Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler. She claims that these magazines published 6,000 cartoons, photos and other illustrations of children between 1954 and 1984."
The X-Rated Hoax: A tale of harridans, charlatans & poppycock | Evangelical Psychologistsby Irene Graham, of Burning Issues August 18, 1999

4) A Personal Odyssey

5) "The commercial sex industry now joined forces with the Kinsey Institute and academic sexology to prevent any light from being shed on their world. In time I would obtain copies of secret letters and packages, clandestinely sent worldwide by the Kinsey Institute and pornographers, to discredit my investigation into Kinsey and that of children appearing in their magazines....All along, the Kinsey Institute maintained a constant, stealth effort, largely censoring me and my findings from the print and broadcast media, all relevant professional conferences and journals, book publishers and such." A Personal Odyssey to the Truth, By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D. Date last modified, Jan 3, 2000.

6) Carol, Avedon 1994, NUDES, PRUDES and ATTITUDES: PORNOGRAPHY and CENSORSHIP, New Clarion Press, Gloucester, p. 156-158.

7) Ibid., p. 156-158.

8) SHOWDOWN IN CINCINNATI, by James R. Peterson, PLAYBOY March 1991.

"Kinsey, Sex & Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People," by Dr. Judith A Reisman, Edward W. Eichel. Publisher: Huntington House, P.O. Box 53788, Lafayette, LA 70505, 800-749-4009.

9) Kinsey Institute News Release: Bancroft Responds to Allegations from Family Research Council John Bancroft, director of Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, September 6, 1995.

10) Bill Summary and Status for the 104th Congress, H.R.2749, Child Protection and Ethics I Education Act of 1995. The Kinsey Institute Response to HR 2749 to which Stockman refused to respond.

11) Firebreathers: Interviews with Six House Freshmen, American Enterprise Organization

12) Wacko, Texas: A legislative loose cannon takes aim on government, by Larry Bensky, Mother Jones.

13) Federal Election Commission records on contributions to Steve Stockman's 1994, and 1996 campaigns.

14) 29 House Incumbents Bolt Out Of The Starting Gate, by Marc Birtel, CQ Staff Writer

15) Alfed C. Kinsey, Wardell B. Pomeroy, Clyde E. Martin, SEXUAL BEHAVIOR IN THE HUMAN MALE, (W.B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1948), p. 26.
Posted by grace pettigrew, Saturday, 22 January 2005 7:38:54 AM
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Yeah Grace, but he still procured pedophiles to take notes as they abused their victims - all in the name of "science".
Posted by Cranky, Saturday, 22 January 2005 11:30:30 AM
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Thank you Grace for posting the information on the American Family Association - good to know there are people out there caring about the fate of families as traditionally understood - Mums, Dads and kids. Great to read they are also “promoting the centrality of God in American life” and “promoting the Christian ethic of decency.” - we could do with a bit more of that in Australia life. So I guess Bill Muehlenberg would be happy to be associated with this crew.

Regarding Kinsey and Judith Reisman, I know as you also know that there is always more that one opinion to be found on the internet and I had no trouble turning up the following one which certainly supports Cranky's assertion about Kinsey's proclivities as well as providing a rather different portrait of Reisman. Personally, I don't know of Reisman but rather suspect the account I have turned up might be a good deal closer to the mark than yours.

People in favour of traditional religion based moral values are not going to fade away In fact they are going to gain in strength as our society continues to haemorrhage from the outworkings of the 1960's sexual revolution. Just consider all the growth of private including religion based schools at the expense of stte schools and ask yourself why when the overwhelming majority of those parents are making monetry sacrifices to send their children to such - I was one of them and I know, and I remember the sacrifices my own parents made.

Touchstone Magazine Weblog: Wednesday, December 11 (Reprinted here by permission)

MORE GOOD NEWS FROM HOLLYWOOD:

According to a story in WorldNet Daily, Film star to portray
'sex reformer' Kinsey, Francis Ford Coppola is making a movie about Alfred Kinsey, to be released by MGM's United Artists division. The movie's director, Bill Condon, says that

"It does feel like it's time to remind people of Kinsey's ideas, which I think are liberating. I hope there's an exhilarating feeling you get when you come out of the theater."

He also says that there would be

"no Playboy or Dr. Ruth without [Kinsey's] liberating effects"

I think this wrong, and that these things would have arisen without him, because the sexual disintegration of modern western society grew from other causes. The most obvious is the simple fact that sex sells things, not just dirty magazines and books by silly old women, but even things with no sexual aspect whatsoever. A less obvious reason is that sex provides a fake transcendence, which a secularizing society with strong religious instincts would require. As Malcolm Muggeridge said somewhere, "sex is the mysticism of materialism."

What Kinsey provided was an intellectual justification for hitherto forbidden activities, and people always like to have a reason for doing what they were going to do anyway. He gave the impression that acting as you wanted to was proven all right by "science," which to secularized middle Americans was the equivalent of "And God said." (I suspect the book was only rarely actually read, and almost never read closely and critically.)

His statistics, which we now know to have been to a great extent made up - Kinsey found what he wanted to find - seemed to prove that adultery and homosexuality were really "normal," because so many morally unmoored people think that one measures morality by numbers. I have heard "born again" Christians say "but everyone does it" as if this were a final, clinching argument. A secularized society with no interest in what God wants will still try to find a secure basis for its morality, and statistics is at least certain. (Unless they're provided by men like Alfred Kinsey.)

His idea that sexuality was a "continuum" seemed to prove that it did not matter what one did with whom. I am not sure why people thought this, except that morality depends upon distinctions and a continuum does not allow them because one thing blends into another. People all have these sexual energies and needs but vary in the ways in which they express them, but one man's desire for women was not really any different from another man's desire for other men or for children. They are just different points on the continuum.

I think Kinsey simply provided intellectual justification for what people were going to do anyway in part because his books received such a welcome, suggesting that he simply said something people were eagerly waiting to hear. I remember reading in an interesting article on Kinsey some years ago - it may have been the excerpt in The New Yorker from James Jones' biography - that when his studies appeared the intellectual magazines attacked them, while the popular magazines like Life praised them to the skies. "Middle America," even in the 40s and 50s a rapidly secularizing group, seems to have loved Kinsey.

The New Yorker article, by the way, revealed that Kinsey himself was a sadomasochistic pervert, who took pleasure from . . . sorry, I almost forgot this was a PG-13 blog. Let me just say that he seems to have enjoyed doing something that no male I know would think pleasurable, not in a million years. Let me just say: OUCH!

Anyway, he was a truly wicked man, who not only lied in his books to prove that actions of which he approved, and in which he secretly indulged, were just fine, but victimized many others, including his wife, to feed his lusts. Jones' biography revealed, to give just one example, that

Kinsey produced pornography in his attic - filming his wife, male staff and their wives as performers ¿ and sexually harassed his male students.

And then there is the evidence that he used the work of child molesters in his studies and thought sex with children just fine. (It's a continuum, after all.) He did not report them to the police, but the major media do not object to this, though they howl with rage when the archbishop of Boston does not report child molesters to the police. (As they should. I would just like to see a little more even-handed rage.)

The researcher Judith Reisman - who, by the way, was for years often abused by academics for saying about Kinsey what Jones later revealed in his biography -

points to pages 160-161 of Kinsey's 1948 book "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male," in which the children's "screams," their "convulsions," their "hysterical weeping," "fighting" and "striking the partner (adult)" are judged by Kinsey as reflecting "definite pleasure from the situation."

Oh. What about this man is "exhilarating"? There is a great deal of evidence against Kinsey in this matter, besides that one damning quote. In a documentary titled "Kinsey's Paedophiles" produced by Yorkshire Television (but never shown here), for example, another biographer of Kinsey, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, had seen Kinsey's files from 1956 and noted that

[Kinsey] was deeply influenced by five pedophile headmasters who were quite clear they had very warm relationships, loving relationships with young adolescent boys of 12 or 13.

My first reaction is astonishment that such a wicked man could have had such an effect on an entire society. But my second reaction, which I think is closer to the truth, is sadness that this society could have made of such a wicked man an intellectual hero.

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For those interested in finding out more, LifeSiteNews offers two links for further information on Dr. Kinsey:

Kinsey: Crime of the Century

More Alfred Kinsey Horrors Exposed
Posted by David Palmer, Saturday, 22 January 2005 12:18:31 PM
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And thank you David, for making my point better than I could. You clearly don't understand the difference between evidence and opinion, or fact and fiction. The scientific method and legal logic are just gobbledegook to religious fundamentalists, I know. I will sign off with the following exemplary passage, and leave you to it.

[The text that was contained in the rest of this post has been deleted for breaching copyright. Whole, or substantially whole, texts cannot be quoted without the permission of the author. Small extracts to illustrate a point are not a breach of copyright. If you want an idea of what this post was about it was extracted from "Religion and Democracy", by Denis Kenny, published in full in "Dissent", Dec 2004, and on Margo Kingston's Webdiary. - Graham Young, Chief Editor On Line Opinion]
Posted by grace pettigrew, Saturday, 22 January 2005 5:44:22 PM
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Grace, every word in your last post is someone's opinion. Not necessarily fact and definately not science.
Posted by Cranky, Saturday, 22 January 2005 6:00:28 PM
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