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...West Los Angeles, the entertainment committee of the U.C.L.A. freshman class opened the summer silly season with a selection of the prettiest male legs in U.S. public life. Among the winners: Presidential Assistant Clark Clifford, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Reporter Alfred Kinsey...
Caricatured Psychiatrists. When he discusses Kinsey's attitude toward psychiatrists, Dr. Kubie loses his proper bedside manner entirely. It almost seems, he laments, that the Kinsey Report is trying to caricature the psychiatrist. He cites one statement: "There are some psychoanalysts who contend that they never had a patient who has not had incestuous relations." Snapped Kubie: "There has never been and never will be any psychoanalyst who has made such a statement . . . We expect such distortions from occasional biased and irresponsible ignoramuses, but not from responsible fellow scientists...
Editors of Psychosomatic Medicine asked Kinsey to reply. He declined...
...speech last week to the American Psychopathological Association, in Manhattan, Dr. Kinsey stuck to his guns-arguing, even more emphatically than he has before, that man's sex habits aren't very different from those of other mammals. Most of man's sexual behavior that is now considered abnormal, he said, is "part & parcel of our inheritance as mammals and is natural and normal biologically." It is, he said, scientifically sound to look to mammalian background "as sources of human behavior." He was seconded by Yale Psychologist Frank Beach, who has studied sex habits from shrews* (mouselike...
Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...