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Several months before his latest book was published. Sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey gave newsmen a "conditional" peek at it. One of Dr. Kinsey's conditions: all newsmen had to sign a contract binding them to submit their stories in advance to Kinsey for "factual correction." Since only those who signed could see the book, most newsmen went along with the contract. But last week Kinsey tried to convert his "condition" into a principle...
...Indianapolis, where he was to lecture before the Central Neuropsychiatric Association, Kinsey announced that no reporter would get in unless he signed another contract agreeing to submit his story to Kinsey to "correct factual errors." The press promptly objected. "Perhaps." said Washington Post Managing Editor J. Russell Wiggins, who is also chairman of the Freedom of Information Committee of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, "the newspapers should agree not to go into biological research if Kinsey will agree not to go into newspaper editing." Added the National Association of Science Writers in a wire to Kinsey: "Your current demand...
...Kinsey has confirmed what Novelist Shellabarger knew long ago: a lot of women get a rosy glow from romantic yarns. If Lord Vanity does as well as some earlier Shellabargers (Captain from Castile, Prince of Foxes), it should easily outsell Sexual Behavior in the Human Female...
...Family Survey of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod [Aug. 17] ... is not a "Kinsey for Lutherans." The sex question was only one in 50 that were asked. The questionnaire, as a whole, was less than a third of the entire research into historic doctrines and practices in the Christian church...
Regardless of the scientific objectivity of Dr. Kinsey, his name has come to be associated with anything "sexational." It is not a compliment to have a religious study labeled in that...