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Some groups are tougher. It took him three years, Kinsey likes to recall, to win the confidence of "the Times Square underworld." Once the goons and dope peddlers learned that he was a straight-shooter who would not betray them to the cops, they began to take pride in helping a man of science. Now, if he loiters on the steps of Manhattan's Astor Hotel, he needs a bodyguard to fend off the too-willing contributors...
Funds have been offered as willingly as information. Kinsey's backers: Indiana U., which pays his salary ($9,600) as professor of zoology, and provides space and physical facilities without, so far the slightest objection from Hoosier state legislators; and the Rockefeller Foundation which sends Kinsey $40,000 each year through the National Research Council In addition, about an equal sum comes from royalties on the male volume which go to the institute (Kinsey takes only his professorial salary...
...Consequences. What is the effect of Kinsey's work on the U.S.? It may take another Kinsey report, 20 years hence, to find out. But certain effects are already visible...
...York Times refused ads for Ideal Marriage, by a highly respectable Dutch physician, Theodoor H. Van de Velde, who spoke of sex with great candor but also with an almost romantic reverence No single event did more for open discussion of sex than the Kinsey report, which got such matters as homosexuality, masturbation, coitus and orgasm into most papers and family magazines...
Another effect has been on legislation concerning sex offenders. Current laws charges Kinsey, are antiquated and unrealistic, bear no relation to the facts of sexual behavior. Many of their punitive provisions, even if rigorously enforced, could not possibly produce the results expected of them. In this field, change so far has been slow but distinct, e.g., largely on the basis of Kinsey's testimony, California's legislature has dropped a plan for compulsory castration of sex offenders...