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...mere medical publishing house like W. B. Saunders Co. can make big money on Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (at $6.50), a lot of other publishers would like to get in the act. This week, with the Kinsey Report still high (No. 3) on the non-fiction bestseller list, publishers were scrambling to turn out volumes appraising Kinsey's statistics, arguing with Kinsey's conclusions-or just riding the Kinsey bandwagon...
Helpful. The chief apologists for Kinsey (who was not invited to the meeting, although he was in Manhattan) were medical men. Public health men, said Dr. J. R. Heller of the U.S. Public Health Service, have learned much from the book. The PHS will aim its antivenereal disease campaigns at parts of the population which Kinsey believes to be most sexually active (those with only grade-school education). PHS will also adopt Kinsey's interview techniques in tracking down sources of venereal disease...
Said Columbia Psychiatrist Jules Eisenbud: Kinsey uncovered facts, but his methods did not go deep enough to show whether there is any relation between sexual activity and mental health. Dr. Eisenbud added darkly that some sexual events are so deeply buried that they are dug up only under psychiatric treatment. As for Kinsey's hint that there are no such things as normality or abnormality in sex: "nonsense...
...Kinsey is just a stuffy Puritan, and a dangerous one at that, according to the American Museum of Natural History's tart-tongued Cultural Anthropologist Margaret Mead. By using the word "outlet" for sex activity, Kinsey upheld the Puritan tradition that the body should not be used for pleasure. Said Dr. Mead: he "confused sex with excretion." He missed completely the emotional, spiritual and ethical sides of sex, and seemed to overlook society's need for a sex pattern. Patterns, Dr. Mead said, are necessary, and are found in every society "apparently to reward men for staying home...
Harmful? If a "Dr. Binsey" made a scientific survey to prove that 99 out of 100 boys steal, said Father Harold Gardiner, S.J., an editor of America, parents would not demand a change in the larceny laws. Demanding a change in laws regulating sex on the basis of Kinsey's findings is just as senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand...