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Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, yesterday branded the new-famous Kinsey report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" as one more step towards "the disruption of the American family system...
...went on to label Kinsey's statements about "right and wrong," "normal and abnormal," and the origin of the family system as entirely misconceived and misleading...
...queer logic to term anything right and normal just because it happens, but that is what Kinsey and his coworkers have done," Zimmerman stated. According to the report, "even the acts of the sexual athlete and the esoteric are to be considered normal...
Class View. Sex behavior, Kinsey reports, seems to have a class angle. There is no "American pattern" of sexual behavior according to his findings; instead, there are differences as great as anthropologists find between the sexual patterns of different racial groups in remote parts of the world. The U.S. differences correspond roughly to educational levels. Many men who have gone to college, he finds, have kissed dozens of girls, had intercourse with none; but among males of lower educational levels, there is more intercourse, less petting...
...general, males of the upper levels feel that lower-level morality lacks "ideals" while the lower level feels that the college-level group is artificial and insincere in its sexual behavior-and what is worse, tries to force its patterns on others. Says Kinsey: "Legends about the immorality of the lower level are matched by legends about the perversions of the upper level...