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Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...
Holding fast to its unique tradition, the new Testament is also well abreast of the unique present. Following the lead of such exposes as Inside Europe, Inside Asia, and the Kinsey Report is a Deacon treatise called the Kirkland Report. Few facts are mentioned but there are all kinds of percentages and such revelations as "only 6% of Kirkland House men behave in this fashion...
...later the Greystone Press issued American Sexual Behavior and the Kinsey Report, a kind of Kinsey-made-easy, without difficult graphs and tables. Price: $1.96. The authors, leftish Lawyer Morris L. Ernst and David Loth, a publicity man, dedicate their book to Kinsey and his associates, "who have enriched the market place of thought...
...author of Bachelors' Quarters and editor of The Golden Treasury of the World's Wit and Wisdom). Says a dust-jacket blurb: "We did not plan to publish the contents of this book for some time to come . . . [but] excitement caused by the recent appearance of the Kinsey Report has suddenly brought most of these doubtful factors into a maturity of public interest. . ." Sample spicy headings in Lockridge's work: "What a Man Expects of a Mistress," "Good Women Not as Skillful as Prostitutes," "The Perfect Wedding Night," "A Frenchman's Experience...