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Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme
The confirmation of deliberately skewed research of Alfred C. Kinsey.
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January 23, 2020
In an interview with Business Insider, John Bancroft, former director of the Kinsey Institute who ended his directorship in 2004, offered this response to Dr. Reisman's claims against Dr. Kinsey's dubious research:
Why Kinsey's Research Remains Even More Controversial Than The 'Masters Of Sex'
From the Preface, titled "Personal Odyssey":
My sincerest thanks to the hundreds of women and men who have called and written to me over the years to encourage and aid me in my efforts to bring the facts of this case to one of the last honest tribunals, the American court of public opinion...
... On point, most important, in this revised edition(3rd Revised & Expanded edition (April 1, 2003)) I am especially grateful to Robert H. Knight of the Family Research Council for his shepherding through the powerful 1994 dodumentary on the Kinsey team's child sexual abuse, "The Children of Table 34," and to the generous narration by film actor Efraim Zimbalist, Jr. Four years later, the distinquished investigative journalism of the prestigious British Yorkshire Television research team, headed by Tim Tate, the award winning (UNESCO,Amnesty International) documentary producer-director, produced, "Secret Histories: Kinsey's Paedophiles," broadcast throughout Great Britain August 10, 1998.
This major English television studio put its credibility on the line in setting the record straight. They located one of Kinsey's many "trained" serial pedophile aides in Frankfurt, Germany--Dr. Fritz von Balluseck, a Nazi child molester--another serial pedophile aide, Rex King, in Arizona and five pedophile headmasters in Princeton, New Jersey, among others. Yorkshire's costly and diligent investigations confirmed my child abuse charges against the Kinsey team and the Kinsey Institute's past and current culpability...
...Regarding her parents: "I also inherited from them their love of truth, concern for the powerless, and resistance to tyranny, all of which launched me upon the difficult journey described in this book."...
...In March 1981 I received a reply to my letter to The Kinsey Institute from Kinsey’s coauthor, Dr. Paul Gebhard. I had written to ask about the child data in Tables 30-34. Gebhard, who succeeded Dr. Kinsey as the Kinsey Institute Director, wrote to me that the children in Kinsey’s tables were obtained from parents, school teachers and male homosexuals, and that some of Kinsey’s men used “manual and oral techniques” to catalog how many “orgasms” infants and children could produce in a given amount of time.
... Armed with Gebhard’s letter and admissions, on July 23, 1981, I created an uproar in Jerusalem at the Fifth World Congress of Sexology when I lectured on Dr. Kinsey and his child data. I was confident my sexology colleagues would be as outraged as was I by these tables and the child data describing Kinsey’s reliance on pedophiles as his child sex experimenters. Perhaps worst of all for me, as a scholar and a mother were pages 160 and 161 where Kinsey claimed his data came from interviews.”
How could he say 196 little children— some as young as two months of age—enjoyed “fainting,” “screaming,” “weeping,” and “convulsing”? How could he call these children’s responses evidence of their sexual pleasure and “climax”? I called it evidence of terror, of pain, as well as criminal. One of us was very, very sexually mixed up.
In 1990, when some of my child-abuse findings were printed in a small-circulation book, Phil Donahue, a popular talk show host and Kinsey devotee, telecast Kinsey’s general importance to the world. A boy in his audience asked why Kinsey should matter to him, today. Mr. Donahue instructed the youth, too young to remember:
Kinsey was to sexuality what Freud was to psychiatry, what Madame Curie was to radiation, that Einstein was to physics. Comes along this woman [Reisman] saying, "Holy cow! E doesn’t equal mc2. We’ve based an entire generation of education of sexologists on Kinsey, and Kinsey was dirty old man".
While Donahue countered that day that Kinsey was really a fine family man, I suggest it is time to let people decide for themselves who and what Kinsey was. Despite what Mr. Donahue says, this much is certain: the world has a right to know what has been hidden up to now, a right and a responsibility to know what happened to the children of Table 34.
What does this mean for us all? This book, I hope, will provide an answer. In 1989, the National Research Council said American society can be divided into the “Pre- and Post-Kinsey Era.” I have no argument with that. Indeed, Kinsey has had a significant impact on all our lives. Today the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University celebrates Kinsey’s past 50 years of pioneering contributions to society. It is my greatest hope, as a scholar and as a grandmother, that the truth presented here will help many to understand the great significance Kinsey has had on their individual lives and the influence the Kinsey reports continue to have on the lives of their children and grandchildren. Then, whether a celebration is in order, is up to you.
***
FROM THE BOOK: Alfred Charles Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 23, 1894. He grew up in South Orange, and was 16 when Congress halted the traffic in young girls (“White Slave Trade”) in 1910. It was largely to oppose such forced prostitution that religious women and feminists joined forces to encourage a return to virtue, temperance and chastity that would safeguard the institutions
of marriage and family.
COMMENTS
This contentious issue won't abate soon. Since the days of Adam and Eve, a culture of personal choices and deviation from socially acceptable mores were illustrated. The tale of Sodom and Gomorah comes to mind. Some researchers even claim that homosexuality and debauchery brought the two cities to an end. Others claim that venereal disease among the Roman soldiers destroyed the Roman army.
Nothing is really new, is it? What would have happened to humanity if doctors did not dissect and experiment on human cadavers (or even live subjects) in previous centuries? Leonardo Da Vinci had a hard time doing his research. And Dr. Alfred Kinsey: did he bring more insight to the treatment of pedophiles, masochists, sadists, et al? He surely did. His campaign to safe people from landing in asylums due to masturbation, or homosexuality, and be declared insane, benefitted from his research.
If you're interested you can read my review of Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas It's kind of a highly interesting book. From this book:
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552,(FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government upon request. Unfortunately , the Kinsey Institute bypassed this law by keeping the research privately funded (Primarily by the Rockefeller Institute).
For this reason, the scrutiny of its files will forever be denied to any researchers as well as the public. Isn't that sad?
I think everyone should read this book. Even if you do not agree. You have the right to know more about influences that changed our lives. It is so comprehensive that it is impossible to draw out all the highlights. The role of Playboy in child-sex crimes (which might be the revelation of the century), as well as several other issues, such as sex education in primary schools, and legislation softening the blow to sex offenders, are discussed.
This book is not sensationlism disguised as public concern. Dr. Reisman did meticulous, scholarly, research, referenced hundreds of sources and presented her findings in an easy-to-read format. It depends on the reader what will be taken from her work.
Ask yourself the question: what would you do if your child formed part of this research study? And, most importantly, without your consent? Bear in mind, some children, even babies of 3 to 9 months old were sexually stimulated nonstop for 24 hours, by adults.
Another one: if sexual stimulation by adults are so enjoyable, why are so many child victims committing suicide in their later years? Why are victims often mentally, socially, emotionally crippled for life afterwards?
Footnote in Capter 7: Los Angeles Times for July 19, 1999 published an article by libertarian Carol Travis entitled "Uproar Over Sexual Abuse Study Muddies the Waters." Travis writes: "I guess I should be reassured to know that Congress disapproves of pedophilia and the sexual abuse
of children. On July 12, the House voted unanimously to denounce a study that the resolution's sponsor, Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), called 'the emancipation proclamation of pedophiles.' .... What got Congress riled was an article last year in the journal Psychological Bulletin, which is to behavioral science what the Journal of the American Medical Assn. is to medicine."The authors of that article--Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman--concluded, from their meta-analysis of a non-random selection of 59 "studies" of child sexual abuse, that if the child is "willing," sex with an adult may be rewarding and harmless and that "non-judgmental" language should be used when referring to child molesters (i.e., terming sex with children "adult-child sex" rather than "child sexual abuse). Following the Congressional resolution and massive pressure from "Dr. Laura," the APA apologized and backed down from its publication of this pedophile promotional piece. Recent revelations that two of the three supposedly objective APA authors have ties with Paidika: The Journal of Paedophila raise serious questions about their objectivity. An article by Robert Buserman, entitled "Man-Boy Sexual Relationships in a Cross-Cultural Perspective," appeared in the Summer 1989 issue of Paidika. The Winter 1995 issue includes a book review by Bruce Rind, and recommends an article by Bauserman and Rind.
People often ask me why I read 'these kind of books?' My answer, always is: "Why not?"
Another 17 years later. This book is now more relevant than ever.
More reading:
- Alfred Kinsey: A pioneer of Sex Research; by Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee; (2003)
RECOMMENDED.
Why Kinsey's Research Remains Even More Controversial Than The 'Masters Of Sex'
[Kinsey] obtained information about children's sexual responses from a few of his adult male research subjects, one in particular, who had been involved in sexual activity with children. Reisman [sic] is entitled to disagree with Kinsey's use of such evidence; she is entitled to the opinion that no researcher should obtain information from a sexual offender without reporting it to the police; she is entitled to question the validity of such evidence; but she is not entitled to make the allegations of criminal behavior on Kinsey's part. He did not promote this activity; he did not train anyone to carry out such observations; neither Kinsey nor any of his research team was involved in any sexual experiments on children; and none of them was in any sense, a pedophile.Quote from the book: How was it possible for a sickly, religious boy who grew up to be a serious college student with an obvious talent for biology and an abysmal ignorance of sex—how did this young man evolve into a world authority on sexual behavior who could be mentioned in the same breath with Freud? ~ Wardell Pomeroy, Kinsey coauthor, 1972
From the Preface, titled "Personal Odyssey":
My sincerest thanks to the hundreds of women and men who have called and written to me over the years to encourage and aid me in my efforts to bring the facts of this case to one of the last honest tribunals, the American court of public opinion...
... On point, most important, in this revised edition(3rd Revised & Expanded edition (April 1, 2003)) I am especially grateful to Robert H. Knight of the Family Research Council for his shepherding through the powerful 1994 dodumentary on the Kinsey team's child sexual abuse, "The Children of Table 34," and to the generous narration by film actor Efraim Zimbalist, Jr. Four years later, the distinquished investigative journalism of the prestigious British Yorkshire Television research team, headed by Tim Tate, the award winning (UNESCO,Amnesty International) documentary producer-director, produced, "Secret Histories: Kinsey's Paedophiles," broadcast throughout Great Britain August 10, 1998.
This major English television studio put its credibility on the line in setting the record straight. They located one of Kinsey's many "trained" serial pedophile aides in Frankfurt, Germany--Dr. Fritz von Balluseck, a Nazi child molester--another serial pedophile aide, Rex King, in Arizona and five pedophile headmasters in Princeton, New Jersey, among others. Yorkshire's costly and diligent investigations confirmed my child abuse charges against the Kinsey team and the Kinsey Institute's past and current culpability...
...Regarding her parents: "I also inherited from them their love of truth, concern for the powerless, and resistance to tyranny, all of which launched me upon the difficult journey described in this book."...
...In March 1981 I received a reply to my letter to The Kinsey Institute from Kinsey’s coauthor, Dr. Paul Gebhard. I had written to ask about the child data in Tables 30-34. Gebhard, who succeeded Dr. Kinsey as the Kinsey Institute Director, wrote to me that the children in Kinsey’s tables were obtained from parents, school teachers and male homosexuals, and that some of Kinsey’s men used “manual and oral techniques” to catalog how many “orgasms” infants and children could produce in a given amount of time.
... Armed with Gebhard’s letter and admissions, on July 23, 1981, I created an uproar in Jerusalem at the Fifth World Congress of Sexology when I lectured on Dr. Kinsey and his child data. I was confident my sexology colleagues would be as outraged as was I by these tables and the child data describing Kinsey’s reliance on pedophiles as his child sex experimenters. Perhaps worst of all for me, as a scholar and a mother were pages 160 and 161 where Kinsey claimed his data came from interviews.”
How could he say 196 little children— some as young as two months of age—enjoyed “fainting,” “screaming,” “weeping,” and “convulsing”? How could he call these children’s responses evidence of their sexual pleasure and “climax”? I called it evidence of terror, of pain, as well as criminal. One of us was very, very sexually mixed up.
In 1990, when some of my child-abuse findings were printed in a small-circulation book, Phil Donahue, a popular talk show host and Kinsey devotee, telecast Kinsey’s general importance to the world. A boy in his audience asked why Kinsey should matter to him, today. Mr. Donahue instructed the youth, too young to remember:
Kinsey was to sexuality what Freud was to psychiatry, what Madame Curie was to radiation, that Einstein was to physics. Comes along this woman [Reisman] saying, "Holy cow! E doesn’t equal mc2. We’ve based an entire generation of education of sexologists on Kinsey, and Kinsey was dirty old man".
While Donahue countered that day that Kinsey was really a fine family man, I suggest it is time to let people decide for themselves who and what Kinsey was. Despite what Mr. Donahue says, this much is certain: the world has a right to know what has been hidden up to now, a right and a responsibility to know what happened to the children of Table 34.
What does this mean for us all? This book, I hope, will provide an answer. In 1989, the National Research Council said American society can be divided into the “Pre- and Post-Kinsey Era.” I have no argument with that. Indeed, Kinsey has had a significant impact on all our lives. Today the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University celebrates Kinsey’s past 50 years of pioneering contributions to society. It is my greatest hope, as a scholar and as a grandmother, that the truth presented here will help many to understand the great significance Kinsey has had on their individual lives and the influence the Kinsey reports continue to have on the lives of their children and grandchildren. Then, whether a celebration is in order, is up to you.
***
FROM THE BOOK: Alfred Charles Kinsey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on June 23, 1894. He grew up in South Orange, and was 16 when Congress halted the traffic in young girls (“White Slave Trade”) in 1910. It was largely to oppose such forced prostitution that religious women and feminists joined forces to encourage a return to virtue, temperance and chastity that would safeguard the institutions
of marriage and family.
COMMENTS
This contentious issue won't abate soon. Since the days of Adam and Eve, a culture of personal choices and deviation from socially acceptable mores were illustrated. The tale of Sodom and Gomorah comes to mind. Some researchers even claim that homosexuality and debauchery brought the two cities to an end. Others claim that venereal disease among the Roman soldiers destroyed the Roman army.
Nothing is really new, is it? What would have happened to humanity if doctors did not dissect and experiment on human cadavers (or even live subjects) in previous centuries? Leonardo Da Vinci had a hard time doing his research. And Dr. Alfred Kinsey: did he bring more insight to the treatment of pedophiles, masochists, sadists, et al? He surely did. His campaign to safe people from landing in asylums due to masturbation, or homosexuality, and be declared insane, benefitted from his research.
If you're interested you can read my review of Shrinks: The Untold Story of Psychiatry by Jeffrey A. Lieberman, Ogi Ogas It's kind of a highly interesting book. From this book:
Horrific depictions of asylums would continue for the better part of the next two centuries, forming one of the most prominent themes of psychiatry and serving as endless fodder for journalistic exposés and causes for civil rights activism.) Inmates could expect to be chained, whipped, beaten with sticks, submerged in freezing water, or simply locked up in a cold, tiny cell for weeks at a time. On Sundays, they would often be displayed as freakish marvels before a gasping and taunting public. ...Dr. Reisman's book questions the methodology of the research. I have a few questions myself. However, Dr. Reisman 's crusade against Dr. Alfred Kinsey, should be applauded, since access to the primary source material is denied to this day for 'those who are not pro-Dr. Kinsey'. One of the lame excuses is that the thousands of reports are not properly catalogued. My answer: get it done.
The Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552,(FOIA) is a federal freedom of information law that requires the full or partial disclosure of previously unreleased information and documents controlled by the United States government upon request. Unfortunately , the Kinsey Institute bypassed this law by keeping the research privately funded (Primarily by the Rockefeller Institute).
For this reason, the scrutiny of its files will forever be denied to any researchers as well as the public. Isn't that sad?
I think everyone should read this book. Even if you do not agree. You have the right to know more about influences that changed our lives. It is so comprehensive that it is impossible to draw out all the highlights. The role of Playboy in child-sex crimes (which might be the revelation of the century), as well as several other issues, such as sex education in primary schools, and legislation softening the blow to sex offenders, are discussed.
This book is not sensationlism disguised as public concern. Dr. Reisman did meticulous, scholarly, research, referenced hundreds of sources and presented her findings in an easy-to-read format. It depends on the reader what will be taken from her work.
Ask yourself the question: what would you do if your child formed part of this research study? And, most importantly, without your consent? Bear in mind, some children, even babies of 3 to 9 months old were sexually stimulated nonstop for 24 hours, by adults.
Another one: if sexual stimulation by adults are so enjoyable, why are so many child victims committing suicide in their later years? Why are victims often mentally, socially, emotionally crippled for life afterwards?
Footnote in Capter 7: Los Angeles Times for July 19, 1999 published an article by libertarian Carol Travis entitled "Uproar Over Sexual Abuse Study Muddies the Waters." Travis writes: "I guess I should be reassured to know that Congress disapproves of pedophilia and the sexual abuse
of children. On July 12, the House voted unanimously to denounce a study that the resolution's sponsor, Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), called 'the emancipation proclamation of pedophiles.' .... What got Congress riled was an article last year in the journal Psychological Bulletin, which is to behavioral science what the Journal of the American Medical Assn. is to medicine."The authors of that article--Bruce Rind, Philip Tromovitch and Robert Bauserman--concluded, from their meta-analysis of a non-random selection of 59 "studies" of child sexual abuse, that if the child is "willing," sex with an adult may be rewarding and harmless and that "non-judgmental" language should be used when referring to child molesters (i.e., terming sex with children "adult-child sex" rather than "child sexual abuse). Following the Congressional resolution and massive pressure from "Dr. Laura," the APA apologized and backed down from its publication of this pedophile promotional piece. Recent revelations that two of the three supposedly objective APA authors have ties with Paidika: The Journal of Paedophila raise serious questions about their objectivity. An article by Robert Buserman, entitled "Man-Boy Sexual Relationships in a Cross-Cultural Perspective," appeared in the Summer 1989 issue of Paidika. The Winter 1995 issue includes a book review by Bruce Rind, and recommends an article by Bauserman and Rind.
People often ask me why I read 'these kind of books?' My answer, always is: "Why not?"
Another 17 years later. This book is now more relevant than ever.
More reading:
- Alfred Kinsey: A pioneer of Sex Research; by Theodore M. Brown and Elizabeth Fee; (2003)
RECOMMENDED.
August 13, 2012
Alfred C. Kinsey was a mediocre and dishonest scientist who published pseudo-science as a way to justify his own personal sexual perversions. Kinsey's particular incompetence was statistics. Most of his samples were biased, because they contained much higher percentages of sexual deviants than the general population. Maverick scientists whose assertions contradict either common sense or the scientific consensus should be treated with caution. Unfortunately, Kinsey's junk science has become accepted as gospel. Kinsey's supporters respond by making ad hominem attacks on Kinsey's critics, claiming that Kinsey's critics are motivated by sexual repression and hypocrisy. It would be nice to see Kinsey's supporters try to defend Kinsey's science on its merits. It would also be nice if more scientists would support Judith Reisman in her crusade against Kinsey, because currently most of her support comes from the Christian political right. You do not need to believe in God to oppose hedonism, you only need to have compassion for the innocent.
February 23, 2015
If there was a way to give 0 stars I would. This is awful unscientific conspiracy trash. Kinsey had flaws but there is no evidence that he was a pedophile.I do think he should have helped get the pedophile he got the notes from arrested instead of staying scientifically distant. This is a good summary of this authors issues tho:
"If you have heard of Reisman, it’s probably due to her unrelenting pseudoscientific campaign against Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute. In Reisman’s mind, Kinsey is the cause of all things wrong in the world, including pornography and sexual assault. Her latest work, Sexual Sabotage, which was published in 2010 by the far-right conspiracist WND Books, calls Kinsey a “traitor” to America because in Reisman’s mind, he and his researchers deliberately set out to defame the Greatest Generation and destroy the world. She has repeatedly claimed that Kinsey was a pedophile (there is no evidence to support her contentions), and went so far as to sue the Kinsey Institute for defamation in 1991 when they responded to her wild claims. The suit was dismissed with prejudice in 1994, a year after her conservative lawyer left the case. Even Kinsey’s death is a conspiracy, in her mind. Reisman claims that he died of “brutal, repetitive self-abuse” (i.e. masturbation) when in fact he died of heart problems and pneumonia.
Some of her other theories are equally dubious. She claims that pornography and homosexuality are imbued with what she calls “erototoxins,” or mind-altering chemicals. In her world, pornography literally rewires the brain and makes it susceptible to things like homosexuality.
Little wonder, then, that Reisman is also a staunch crusader against homosexuality, which she often falsely links to pedophilia. She is a supporter of the thoroughly discredited Holocaust revisionist work of notorious anti-LGBT hate group leader Scott Lively, who spuriously claims that gay men ran the Nazi Party and are thus responsible for the Holocaust."
quotes taken from: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05...
As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse people like Reisman infuriate me. They are so busy pushing their agenda and trying for fame that they don't notice the damage they do to the survivors they speak over. She is always scapegoating homosexuals as pedophiles and comparing them to nazis. I was molested as a kid by a straight married man who was part of my family. This experience is horrifyingly common, but hell if she will target real pedophiles and what to look out for in reality. She won't talk about how often the abuser is a family member or close family friend and that fear of random gay people doesn't help protect your kids if it's their uncle abusing them.
But what did we expect? She got her PhD in communications and purports herself as an expert in unrelated fields to push her agenda.
She is not helping children and child abuse survivors. Pretending to be an expert in a field she doesn't understand HURTS people. I want people to actually target pedophilia, know the signs of child abuse, teach people not to ignore these problems and to act, and teach kids about consent and what is NOT OK for people to do to them/ask them to do/or for them to show the kids.
What Reisman does accomplishes none of these things in a way that helps children. I am infuriated by her pseudo-scientific nonsense.
"If you have heard of Reisman, it’s probably due to her unrelenting pseudoscientific campaign against Kinsey and the Kinsey Institute. In Reisman’s mind, Kinsey is the cause of all things wrong in the world, including pornography and sexual assault. Her latest work, Sexual Sabotage, which was published in 2010 by the far-right conspiracist WND Books, calls Kinsey a “traitor” to America because in Reisman’s mind, he and his researchers deliberately set out to defame the Greatest Generation and destroy the world. She has repeatedly claimed that Kinsey was a pedophile (there is no evidence to support her contentions), and went so far as to sue the Kinsey Institute for defamation in 1991 when they responded to her wild claims. The suit was dismissed with prejudice in 1994, a year after her conservative lawyer left the case. Even Kinsey’s death is a conspiracy, in her mind. Reisman claims that he died of “brutal, repetitive self-abuse” (i.e. masturbation) when in fact he died of heart problems and pneumonia.
Some of her other theories are equally dubious. She claims that pornography and homosexuality are imbued with what she calls “erototoxins,” or mind-altering chemicals. In her world, pornography literally rewires the brain and makes it susceptible to things like homosexuality.
Little wonder, then, that Reisman is also a staunch crusader against homosexuality, which she often falsely links to pedophilia. She is a supporter of the thoroughly discredited Holocaust revisionist work of notorious anti-LGBT hate group leader Scott Lively, who spuriously claims that gay men ran the Nazi Party and are thus responsible for the Holocaust."
quotes taken from: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/05...
As a survivor of childhood sexual abuse people like Reisman infuriate me. They are so busy pushing their agenda and trying for fame that they don't notice the damage they do to the survivors they speak over. She is always scapegoating homosexuals as pedophiles and comparing them to nazis. I was molested as a kid by a straight married man who was part of my family. This experience is horrifyingly common, but hell if she will target real pedophiles and what to look out for in reality. She won't talk about how often the abuser is a family member or close family friend and that fear of random gay people doesn't help protect your kids if it's their uncle abusing them.
But what did we expect? She got her PhD in communications and purports herself as an expert in unrelated fields to push her agenda.
She is not helping children and child abuse survivors. Pretending to be an expert in a field she doesn't understand HURTS people. I want people to actually target pedophilia, know the signs of child abuse, teach people not to ignore these problems and to act, and teach kids about consent and what is NOT OK for people to do to them/ask them to do/or for them to show the kids.
What Reisman does accomplishes none of these things in a way that helps children. I am infuriated by her pseudo-scientific nonsense.
March 25, 2013
This book was recommended by Shelley Lubben in her book "Truth Behind the Fantasy of Porn". And because I was deeply moved by Shelley Lubben's book, and wanted to look further into the subject matter, I decided to place a hold on "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences: The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme" at the library (the Multnomah County Library in Gresham, Oregon). Interestingly, when I went to pick up "Kinsey" at the library, they didn't have it where all the other holds are placed. They had the book in the back of the library, behind the counter. On the side of the cover there is a label that states the book must be "shelved in closed stacks". I'm not sure of what that means, but it sounded somewhat conspiratorial to me. Why is "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences" stored in the back of the library, where no one can get to it?
And what a difficult book to get through! What a tough subject matter! I had a really hard time rating this book by the goodreads rating system. I wanted to give "Kinsey" one star based on the subject matter presented, but wanted to give it five stars according to the research done by Judith A. Reisman, PhD. She did an excellent job building a strong case against Alfred C. Kinsey. What a dark world Kinsey handed us. He should have suffered for his crimes against humanity... especially against children. He knew what he was doing by destroying the American family. I definitely recommend this book. But... it's not for the faint of heart. It's a really tough book to read. I read about 2/3 of the book and had to put it down for a while before I finished it. It's written like a text book.
At one point, the author, Judith A. Reisman, talked about the Nazi's Bushmanshoff concentration camp... a children's concentration camp. I Googled it, for my own personal research, and found there's absolutely nothing about Bushmanshoff on the internet. I find that highly interesting. In "Kinsey", there is a picture of Bushmanshoff. And it was run by Alfried Krupp, a Nazi "doctor" who, after the Nuremberg trials, served only a couple of years in prison for his heinous crimes. The Rockefeller's helped with his early release, purposely overlooking his crimes.
One more thing... I watched the "Kinsey" movie, starring Liam Neeson, and was surprised that the director skipped over Kinsey's crimes. They painted Kinsey in a good light, making him seem like one of the good ol' boys. Kinsey and the men around him were very vile men, and the director, Bill Condon, glossed over that. I guess that's what Hollywood wants us to see.
I also decided to buy the book. It's definitely a keeper.
And what a difficult book to get through! What a tough subject matter! I had a really hard time rating this book by the goodreads rating system. I wanted to give "Kinsey" one star based on the subject matter presented, but wanted to give it five stars according to the research done by Judith A. Reisman, PhD. She did an excellent job building a strong case against Alfred C. Kinsey. What a dark world Kinsey handed us. He should have suffered for his crimes against humanity... especially against children. He knew what he was doing by destroying the American family. I definitely recommend this book. But... it's not for the faint of heart. It's a really tough book to read. I read about 2/3 of the book and had to put it down for a while before I finished it. It's written like a text book.
At one point, the author, Judith A. Reisman, talked about the Nazi's Bushmanshoff concentration camp... a children's concentration camp. I Googled it, for my own personal research, and found there's absolutely nothing about Bushmanshoff on the internet. I find that highly interesting. In "Kinsey", there is a picture of Bushmanshoff. And it was run by Alfried Krupp, a Nazi "doctor" who, after the Nuremberg trials, served only a couple of years in prison for his heinous crimes. The Rockefeller's helped with his early release, purposely overlooking his crimes.
One more thing... I watched the "Kinsey" movie, starring Liam Neeson, and was surprised that the director skipped over Kinsey's crimes. They painted Kinsey in a good light, making him seem like one of the good ol' boys. Kinsey and the men around him were very vile men, and the director, Bill Condon, glossed over that. I guess that's what Hollywood wants us to see.
I also decided to buy the book. It's definitely a keeper.
April 2, 2008
A well documented piece of research, uncovering the pseudo-science that helped spark the sexual revolution.
August 10, 2012
This book was informative, but very biased.
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