Ed Vitagliano
AFA Journal news editor
September 2011 – She’s 76 years old and diminutive in stature, but there’s still a fire in her eyes when she talks about the sexual revolution and Alfred Kinsey, the man who set it ablaze.
Dr. Judith Reisman is a researcher, author, historian and teacher. She is currently a visiting professor of law at Liberty University. But among cultural conservatives, she is undoubtedly best known for her broadsides fired against the prophet of the modern sexual mindset in America.
Since 1977 Reisman has warned anyone who would listen that Alfred Kinsey is a false prophet – a sexual renegade and scientist who merely used science to push a personal and cultural agenda.
From WW II to Woodstock
The men and women who fought World War II – both at home and abroad – were by and large morally conservative people. Whether or not they realized its roots, this morality grew out of the Judeo-Christian worldview.
“So, what happened from WWII? How did the baby boomers go then directly into Woodstock in 1969?” asked Reisman in an AFA interview. “Everyone was taking off their clothes and drugging and drinking. How did that happen? How did that group of WWII people produce children who really overturned … everything that they had worked for and died for? That became the sexual revolution.”
Most people today have probably never heard of Alfred Kinsey. There can be little doubt, however, that his work as a sex researcher at Indiana University in the 1940s and early 1950s drove the sexual revolution that exploded in the 1960s. His books, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948) and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), were compared by the media at the time as the cultural equivalent of detonating twin atomic bombs in the American heartland.
Kinsey’s approach was simple. He and his staff of researchers conducted thousands of in-depth and intimate interviews with men and women to discern what they had done sexually and what they fantasized about doing.
Despite the statistical problems that later came to light regarding Kinsey’s research methods, the interviews became the basis for a new view of sex, according to historian James H. Jones in his influential biography of Kinsey.
“If people knew the facts about human sexual behavior, [Kinsey] reasoned, one day they would jettison attitudes that had put them at war with their nature and embrace values that treated sexual desires as healthy and wholesome,” Jones said.
It was a new view of human sexuality that was intentionally at odds with the old values. Raised in an extremely strict religious home, Kinsey rebelled against not only Christianity but also the morality that arose from it.
Jones said Kinsey was driven by a “messianic im-pulse” to replace old-fashioned morality with his moral view that what people do sexually – in all its human variety – defines what is normal.
According to the PBS documentary Kinsey, in the popular marriage and sexuality course he taught at Indiana University, Kinsey told students on the first day of class, “The only kinds of sexual dysfunction are abstinence, celibacy and delayed marriage.”
“This is the father of the field of human sexuality,” Reisman said. Kinsey’s views “have been disseminated throughout the U.S. and then from the U.S. worldwide. [His views became] the human sexuality education that trains all of our human sexuality educators.… Remember there was no field of human sexuality, no field of human sexuality education, no field of sexology until Alfred C. Kinsey came along in 1948.”
A darker motive
Alfred Kinsey was motivated by far more than hostility to the Christianity of his youth. He was also the consummate materialist and an atheistic scientist who believed that nature is all that there is. If people are homosexual or heterosexual or bisexual, that is what they are. No moral judgments should be made by individuals or society.
Despite his scientific credentials, however, Kinsey had a personal stake in seeing American morality reformed. Beginning in his youth, Kinsey had experienced homosexual feelings and had practiced masochistic sex. In the pressure-cooker of the strict and compassion-averse version of Christianity in which he was raised, Kinsey was racked by a relentless and hounding sense of guilt.
“His heart goes out to the people whose experiences are similar to his own, people who had felt conflicted in childhood, people who were made to feel guilty,” Jones told PBS. “And as he comes to understand their pain and suffering, I think his own pain and suffering begin to diminish. I think he becomes more and more comfortable with the notion that science will liberate them and science will liberate him.”
Freed from the perceived straitjacket of Judeo-Christian sexual morality, Kinsey may have been liberated from guilt, but by any fair standard of measurement, Kinsey became a slave to sex. He was an obsessive masturbator. He had homosexual relationships with some of his male staff, had heterosexual affairs with women, and encouraged his staff – and his wife – to do the same. Under the guise of scientific observation, Kinsey set up a bed and camera in the loft of his house and began filming hundreds of sexual encounters. His masochistic practices became even worse.
Is it possible that a man so completely given over to sexual perversion could be objective when it came to his scientific endeavors?
Reisman thinks the answer is obvious. “You get a degree, you get that stamped on your diploma and all of a sudden you don’t have a moral agenda?” she said, adding: “His desire was to [make] everybody else like him. … He needed to justify his own sexual deviance. No, the morality of an individual as a scientist will direct his research.”
Pedophile sources
It gets even worse for the defenders of Kinsey. Included in the research for Sexual Behavior in the Human Male were tables of data that, at the time of the initial controversy surrounding the book’s release, were ignored by the public.
The tables purported to demonstrate that children are sexual from birth and are capable of enjoying sexual stimulation even at five months of age. Where did Kinsey get such information? Reisman was one of the first to ask the question.
As it turned out, Kinsey got most of the data from one man – a pedophile and omni-sexual predator named Rex King.
In the 2004 movie Kinsey, which starred Liam Neeson in the title role, King’s character explains his sexual history to Kinsey in a chilling scene:
“My grandmother introduced me to sexual intercourse when I was 10. My first homosexual act was with my father. I was 11. The 33 members of my extended family – I’ve had sex with 17 of them. That’s five generations now. … I’ve had sex with 22 separate species of animals. I’ve had intercourse with 9, 412 people. I’ve had sexual relations with 605 pre-adolescent males and 231 pre-adolescent females.”
It was from King’s detailed records of these sexual molestations that Kinsey drew much of his data on childhood sexual potential.
“Those tables describe children as young as two months of age. Two months. The four year old is one of many little boys,” Reisman said, turning livid as she discusses the subject. According to Kinsey’s own research, she added, the children reacted to the sexual experimentation by “screaming, writhing, [and] falling down in pain.”
Kinsey turned these reactions into categories describing sexual responses. “The final category was when [the children] were ‘striking’ what he called their [sexual] partner … and trying to get away. But Kinsey called all that normal and natural. He called that okay.”
Amazingly, Paul Gebhard, one of Kinsey’s staff associates, defended Kinsey. “We figured this data is valuable data,” he told PBS. “Now just because the guy is a pedophile and it’s illegal activity, you don’t throw away valuable data.”
“This is the father of the field of human sexuality,” Reisman said of Kinsey. “Is there any wonder that following this man’s so-called scientific discoveries, which reflected his moral belief system, that our society is in the state it is in today? … It is insane.”
Unfortunately, it’s an insanity that has spread far and wide, affecting not only the U.S. – the country of origin – but virtually all of Western Civilization.
Reisman said she didn’t think Americans living back in the 1940s or ’50s – as Kinsey was doing his research, writing his books, and subsequently becoming a household name – could have ever imagined that the country would so rapidly disintegrate morally.
“But, hey, we’ve got mass media, we’ve got new means of communication that change things so much more quickly,” said Reisman.
Reisman said she believes we are running out of time. “The collapse is on us,” she said. “I’m always surprised that we haven’t collapsed earlier, you know, and more than we have right now.”
As long as the culture still stands, however, Reisman will continue the fight to expose the underlying beliefs and perverse practices of the father of the modern sexual revolution. It’s a fire that just will not die. 
Learn more about Alfred Kinsey
▶ Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences by Judith Reisman
▶ Sexual Sabotage by Judith Reisman
▶ Alfred Kinsey by James H. Jones
