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Kinsey: A hero for our Times
Here’s the way New York Times movie reviewer Dinitia Smith describes sex researcher, pervert, and fraud Alfred Kinsey, subject of a new movie starring Liam Neeson and directed by Bill Condon:
Kinsey, however, by the time he reached middle age, was a stooped, worn figure who was decidedly bisexual. Born in 1894, he may have been a pioneer in lifting the secrecy that shrouded human sexuality, but he was also obsessive and controlling, and some of his personal practices were masochistic. His biographer, James H. Jones , wrote that he would insert a toothbrush into his penis. A few years before he died he circumcised himself with a pocketknife (without anesthesia) . After recording the sex history of a pedophile who boasted of sexually molesting boys as young as two months, Kinsey wrote to the man, “I rejoice at everything you send, for I am then assured that that much more of your material is saved for scientific publication.”For today’s movie makers, and for the Times which approvingly reports the fact, this monster was a “hero.” Of course, heroism is not a quality often lauded at the paper of record. The last time I remember someone being called a hero in the Times was around 1996, when, neutrally and without disapproval, it said that some people in America regarded the Unabomber as a hero. Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 09, 2004 09:35 PM | Send Comments
Since Larry Flint is now a Saint in the pantheon of liberalism, could Alfred Kinsey be far behind? The great Dr. Kinsey, pervert and fraud extraordinaire, makes us realize that there are actually people on this earth who are so utterly vile that they make the jihadis look virtuous by comparison. Posted by: Carl on November 10, 2004 12:39 AMWe should all thank Kinsey, since prior to him human beings must have been terribly confused about what to put where in the old reproduction department, which is why families hardly had any children at all in the old days and men would on occasion mate with dolphins (hence mermaids) because they didn’t know any better. Posted by: carter on November 10, 2004 2:03 AMI reviewed a book recently which contained a chapter on Kinsey. My conclusion: “any father, upon reading [that chapter], will feel at times that the man deserved nothing less than to be dragged out into the street and shot.” Posted by: Paul Cella on November 10, 2004 8:57 AMI may be one of the few people my age who has actually endured reading Kinsey’s reports. I do not know if the stories about Kinsey’s pedophilia are correct; but the way the man wrote about the molesting of children (and also bestiality) should have triggered a lot more criticism, or at least skepticism than it did when the Kinsey reports came out in 1948 and 1953. Any serious reader of the Kinsey reports would find a lot of dubious things about them. Posted by: Alan Levine on November 10, 2004 3:35 PM |