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...article that, thankfully, has received considerable attention, the Concerned Women for America (CWA) have the audacity to compare Kinsey to a Nazi criminal. Robert Knight, director of the CWA’s Culture & Family Institute, told the Associated Press that “instead of being lionized, Kinsey’s proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist.” Scientist? Absolutely. But practitioner and organizer of systematic torture? Absolutely...
...only fundamentally and pathetically untrue, it’s blatantly offensive and, frankly, stupid. An apology issued later does little to counteract the offensive idiocy inherent in the comparison. In the context of public debate over the movie, this sort of justification shows us just how misinformed the anti-Kinsey intellect...
People who say Kinsey is to blame for the sexual revolution may be right. What they forget, however, is that the sexual openness of the 1960s on forward had to come out of the sexually repressive decade before. If we follow this pattern, then in the decades to come we’ll experience a new wave of sexual progress. Historical patterns lead me to believe that the Neo-conservative, sexually repressive current state of affairs will give way to a second sexual revolution, in which we learn all sorts of new kinky facts about our fellow Americans...
...self-righteously standing up for America, uses the Kinsey debate to hammer home the idea of abstinence-only education. In responding to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) report on the dangers of abstinence-only education, the CWA said, “What could be more solidly scientific than telling a child that abstinence is the only method that is 100 percent effective in protecting from pregnancy and specific sexually transmitted diseases? Apparently the ACLU needs to hire stronger fact-checkers before cranking out inaccurate press releases.” Fact-checking lectures from the people who compared Kinsey...
...wants to lend an ounce of credibility to their mission, they must not choose their information or historical allusions so hastily and inaccurately. The creation and condemnation of the movie Kinsey is clearly reflective of larger debates within our country. But when this repressive administration is out, it will usher in a new and improved sexual revolution...