Judith Reisman - founder of modern Anti-Kinsey Movement

[varun]

she should be sued for libel by Kinsey's children / grandchildren...

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/?041206ta_talk_radosh

"...Judith Reisman is the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement. She spent a week in Washington, D.C., recently, talking to people on Capitol Hill about opening a congressional investigation into Kinsey’s work. The new film, she said, is “deceptive and malevolently misleading, to say the least.” A sixty-nine-year-old independent researcher with a Ph.D. in communications and a former songwriter for Captain Kangaroo, Reisman is the president of the Institute for Media Education and the lead author of “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud” and “Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences.” In one article, Reisman describes Kinsey as “a scientific and moral fraud, a certifiable sexual psychopath as well as a sadomasochistic pornography addict and a sexually harassing bully.” Though largely unknown outside social-conservative circles, Reisman has been influential within them. She has served as a consultant to the Departments of Education and Health and Human Services and was given seven hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars by Ronald Reagan’s Justice Department to study pornography. More recently, she has been active in the rise of abstinence-only education; in June, her colleagues gave her an Abstie Award for lifetime achievement. Last week, Reisman testified at a congressional hearing about the dangers of pornography addiction, saying that police should be required to collect evidence of pornography consumption at any crime scene..."

[gottaB]

1. I don't understand this anti-Kinsey thing

I think the right's tactic of demonization has gotten away from them. It's like they can't just offer a viewpoint, or critique a differing one. They can't function unless they're tearing somebody down.

[Spinzonner]

2. Yeah, I can see it now ...

all those police bringing their work home.

[Spinzonner]

3. There she goes, promoting the biggest sexual perversion of all

Abstinence.

If God didn't intend us to use them, why would he have given us sex organs ?

[varun]

4. in the 1930's there was an explosion of STD's

at a time when everyone was supposed to be "sexually abstinent", and any talk of sex was frowned upon.

Looks like we're again heading that way...

[Verve]

5. Boy, does she sound like she has some pent up sexual frustration.

Be wary of people that are extremely outspoken about certain issues such as sexual behavior, homosexuality, etc. These people hiding behind their indignation are likely to be engaging in those same behaviors they abhor.