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...from society and thrown into prison the homosexual, rather than treating him as what he is: a medical problem. Too long have we blamed these helpless unfortunates for a personality that is not of their own making, but the natural result of their unhappy home life. Thanks to Dr. Kinsey, and the lifting of taboos on discussing the subject, we are making progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 18, 1954 | 1/18/1954 | See Source »

...long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Sex or Snake Oil? | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Today Farm Street still maintains the tradition of getting there first with the best of the Catholic point of view on everything from euthanasia to the Kinsey Report. One of its priests recently outlined Farm Street's function as "presenting the Catholic religion in modern terms to the intelligentsia of the day and answering any attacks made upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Farm Street | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...secrets hitherto kept under wraps. The Jorgensen measurements (made by Christine's own tape): height, 5 ft. 6½ in.; weight, 115 Ibs.; bust, 34 in.; waist, 25 in.; hips, 36 in. Christine's favorite man: Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Kinsey. Said Christine: "He proved that a lot of things that we think abnormal are really very normal. Dr. Kinsey can't help me or hurt me, but he's a marvelous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 4, 1954 | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

...startling statistic compiled by Zoologist Alfred C. Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24) that 50% of U.S. males have some homosexual contact in their lives does not prove them sexually abnormal. In the great majority of cases, the contact is slight and limited to one or a few occasions during childish exploration in a strange, new world. Parents who recognize this will not make the mistake of exaggerating the importance of the event. Then, most likely, the fancy will pass without more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hidden Problem | 12/28/1953 | See Source »

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