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...When Kinsey's first volume appeared sermons, editorials and dinner conversation warned that it might encourage the practices which it described as widespread, e.g., a husband hesitating on the brink of adultery might be encouraged by hearing that 50% of all U.S. men do commit adultery. How well-grounded this fear may be is still far from clear. So far, there is concrete evidence that the Kinsey book has had any such effect, and studies at colleges have shown post-Kinsey youth to be no different from the pre-Kinsey group. Court records show no increase in sex offenses...
This argument is countered by the fact that the gist of the book became known to millions who never read it. Kinsey's work expresses and strengthens an attitude that can be dangerous: the idea that there is morality in numbers...
What Is Normal? An old pollster has suggested the formula: Freud + Gallup x Kinsey. The formula is correct to the extent that Kinsey combines the 20th century's preoccupation with sex, symbolized by Sigmund Freud, with a weakness for piling up facts & figures, symbolized by George Gallup. In earlier ages of Western civilization, the dominant question about opinion was never how many people held it, but whether it was right or wrong...
...Kinsey argues that right and wrong are not his business : he is simply a scientific reporter who is trying to find out what goes on. But he carries to great lengths the syllogism that 1) man is an animal; 2) some animals do all the things that are condemned in modern society as abnormal or perverted; 3) since animals are natural 5 behavior is natural. To Kinsey, anything is "biologically normal" that a lot of people- or animals- do. And Kinsey's tolerance goes to extremes: "The male who reacts sexually . . . upon seeing a streetcar may merely reflect some...
...Columbus of Sex? For years Biologist Kinsey used to investigate the habits of the gall wasp. Since he has switched to humans, he has lost much of his scientific detachment. In his passionate lefense of the taxonomic method (the scientific classification of living things) he ignored or attacked the findings of anthropologists, sociologists and psychoanalysts. Says a friend and fellow sci-"There is too much emotion there He should have been a revivalist...