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Dr. Alfred Kinsey, dedicated SCIENTIST or sexual DEVIANT.

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The major motion picture "Kinsey", starring Liam Neesen and 
Chris O'Donnell, opened on November 12th. It purports to be an 
accurate portrayal of the life and work of Dr. Alfred Kinsey 
(1894-1956), the famed sex researcher whose work has had an 
incredible influence on attitudes toward sexual mores and 
behavior.

IgnatiusInsight.com spoke about Kinsey, his work, and his 
influence with Dr. Benjamin D. Wiker prior to the opening of the 
movie. Dr. Wiker is co-author, with Dr. Donald De Marco, of 
Architects of the Culture of Death (Ignatius Press, 2004) and a 
Lecturer in Science and Theology at Franciscan University. He is 
also the author of Moral Darwinism (InterVarsity).

WARNING: Some of the material discussed in this interview is not 
suitable for younger readers.

IgnatiusInsight.com: Who was Alfred Kinsey and what is he known 
for?

Benjamin Wiker: Well, interestingly enough, who Alfred Kinsey 
was and what he was known for are two very different things. 
Let’s begin with the latter. Kinsey was known as the great 
scientist of sex, the man who fearlessly and dispassionately 
sorted out the true nature of our sexuality from the false, 
unscientific beliefs that have for so long hidden the truth from 
us. The standard picture of Kinsey depicted during his lifetime 
was the dour scientist dressed in a lab coat, patiently sorting 
through reams of data with his equally reputable and objective 
coworkers.

That picture of Kinsey does not reveal who Kinsey really was, 
however. In fact, such pictures were carefully staged by Kinsey 
and his "research" team as part of their ongoing propaganda 
campaign. Behind the scenes, we find the real Kinsey: a 
homosexual and a sado-masochist, bent on using the trappings of 
science to force his perversions upon society.

IgnatiusInsight.com: Why do you think a movie would be made of 
his life? Do you think there is a particular message or agenda 
held by the makers of the film?

Wiker: We have just seen in the presidential election that the 
culture is seriously divided. Part of the culture has been 
pushing pro-homosexual, sexual freedom agenda. No one doubts 
where Hollywood lines up on these issues. They have been using 
their immense resources for some time, along with the other 
liberal-dominated media, to compel Americans to accept every 
sexual deviation as natural and good. Of course, in doing so, 
they were only following Kinsey’s lead, and so we should not be 
surprised that they would make a movie lionizing Kinsey as their 
prophet and martyr.

We can expect the message of the movie to be something like 
this: Kinsey the persecuted homosexual fights fearlessly to 
throw off the chains of sexual repression, but dies a kind of 
martyr who selflessly sacrificed himself for those who would 
come after.

IgnatiusInsight.com: What was the relationship between Kinsey's 
private life and his influential studies?

Wiker: The sole purpose of Kinsey’s various studies was to 
legitimate any and every kind of sexual activity, from adultery 
and homosexuality, to pedophilia and bestiality. Kinsey himself 
was, from his very early youth, a sado-masochistic homosexual. 
His father, Alfred Sr., was a staunch, no-nonsense Protestant 
who ran the household with an iron fist. Of course, young Alfred 
hid his sexual perversions from his father, and the 
contradiction between his outward moral uprightness and his 
inward, hidden sexual distortions caused him great anxiety. But 
by the time he went to graduate school, Kinsey was determined to 
use science to eliminate this anxiety. How? By eliminating the 
distinction between natural and unnatural in regard to 
sexuality. He wanted to use science to "prove" that every sexual 
desire, no matter how bizarre, is natural.

IgnatiusInsight.com: What have been some of the more serious 
charges brought against Kinsey's research, methodologies, and 
goals?

Wiker: To take up on the last point, Kinsey began with the 
belief that every sexual desire is natural, and that it is only 
society that labels things like adultery, homosexuality, 
pedophilia, and bestiality as unnatural. Therefore, he would 
gather "sexual data" precisely from those people who engaged in 
such practices. For example, rather than gather data from the 
population at large, Kinsey preferred to interview prison sex 
offenders. This method would be akin to interviewing convicted 
thieves on what they think of private property, or serial 
killers about the sanctity of life.

IgnatiusInsight.com: In the trailer for "Kinsey" the researcher 
is shown saying to an unseen research subject: "I've learned 
that the gap between what we assume people do sexually and what 
they actually do is enormous." Does this reflect the findings of 
objective research or Kinsey's personal bias?

Wiker: First and foremost, Kinsey’s personal bias. As biographer 
James Jones points out, Kinsey long believed that human beings 
were naturally "pansexual," that is, they had no natural 
goal–such as heterosexuality–but if left to themselves in a kind 
of state of nature would satisfy their sexual desires in 
whatever way happened to strike their fancies. Society restricts 
this natural pansexuality, causing individuals all kinds of 
anxiety. Kinsey therefore believed that while we assume that 
people follow society’s sexual rules, they secretly want to act 
upon their natural pansexuality, and very often do. This 
deviation from social sexual rules–be it in adultery or 
homosexuality–is really not a deviation at all, but our natural, 
pansexuality reasserting itself.

Kinsey’s mode of argument was then quite simple, and the logic 
of it went something like this: we assume that X is abnormal; 
but we have found out that X occurs all the time; what occurs 
all the time cannot be abnormal, therefore it must really be 
normal; what is normal is also natural, and what is natural 
cannot be wrong.

IgnatiusInsight.com: In another scene in the trailer, a 
character (apparently sympathetic to Kinsey's work) exclaims, 
"The enforcers of chastity are massing once again." How might 
the movie try to make connections between the 1940s/50s and 
modern day conflicts over sexual mores?

Wiker: We’ve all seen the recent surge to sanction gay marriage. 
Kinsey is an especially useful figure to support this effort. He 
has the status of a venerable scientist; he can be promoted as a 
martyr. And the lesson Hollywood wants us to draw is quite 
simple: the "enforcers of chastity" belong to the forces of 
darkness. How long, O how long, must they rule over us 
(sympathetic violins playing in the background).

IgnatiusInsight.com: A preview review of the movie on the MSNBC 
site states: "For a movie so frank and explicit, 'Kinsey' has a 
soft spirit. Violins swell. The warmth of the Kinsey's 
unconventional marriage shines through. It's easy to imagine an 
edgier movie, but 'Kinsey' is a celebration of diversity; it's 
about the solace knowledge can bring." How does that compare 
with the reality of Kinsey's life and work?

Wiker: Ah yes, the violins. Well, Kinsey’s marriage will surely 
not be portrayed as it was, and therefore we can forget about 
getting any "solace knowledge can bring." Will they show Kinsey 
talking his wife into having sex with his homosexual bedmates? 
And then there’s the little matter of the pornographic films. 
Kinsey’s Institute spent much of its time filming its staff of 
"scientists," including Kinsey, having homosexual sex with each 
other, masturbating, and engaging in sado-masochistic acts. 
Kinsey’s wife Clara was pushed–for the sake of science, of 
course–into "acting" in these sexually sordid films. Will they 
show his wife having to engage in every manner of sexual 
perversion, both alone and with others, in front of Kinsey’s 
camera? I doubt they will.

IgnatiusInsight.com: The MSNBC review claims: "It was his own 
sexual problems with his new wife, Clara , that first got 
[Kinsey] thinking [about sexual behaviors]." Is that accurate? 
Why or why not?

Wiker: No, not at all. Kinsey engaged in horribly distorted 
homosexual sado-masochism from the time he was a youth. After he 
graduated from Harvard, he landed a job at Indiana University. 
At the time, he was a bachelor, but being a bachelor for too 
long would bring suspicion upon Kinsey. Kinsey needed a wife. He 
soon met and married Clara Bracken McMillen, an intelligent, 
boyish-looking chemistry student. Of course, he did not reveal 
his homosexuality until much after the wedding. Clara did have a 
physical defect that affected her sexuality, but that was taken 
care of by surgery. The real problem with the marriage lay in 
getting Clara to accept his homosexuality. Apparently she did so 
dutifully.

IgnatiusInsight.com: The Kinsey Institute web site poses the 
question, "How has the data held up, over 50 years later?" and 
responds, in part, by saying that a 1979 study validated 
Kinsey's original research: "Interestingly, most statistics, 
such as homosexual behavior, did not change significantly from 
the original reports." Are there any problems with this 
statement in light of more recent studies that indicate 
homosexuals make up 1-3% of the population, as opposed to 
Kinsey's famous claim of 10%?

Wiker: As is now clear, Kinsey inflated the data, and he did so 
precisely because he didn’t care about scientific truth first 
and foremost, but only about his sexual agenda. For Kinsey, 
science must be bent to serve that agenda, and data inflation 
was the best way to do it. As was said above, Kinsey interviewed 
sex offenders to find out what was normal in regard to 
sexuality. Even worse, Kinsey flooded the interview pool not 
only with convicted sex offenders but also several hundred male 
prostitutes. Hardly "objective" research.

In another respect, however, Kinsey’s data have held up–not 
because the data represent the truth, but because they his 
"results" have largely remained unchallenged.

IgnatiusInsight.com: What about Kinsey’s association with 
pedophilia?

Wiker: In the Kinsey report (consisting of two books, the Male 
and Female reports), Kinsey argued at length for the 
legitimization of pedophilia. Like bestiality and homosexuality, 
pedophilia was, according to Kinsey, natural. The only problem 
with pedophilia is caused by the hysterical reactions of those 
who think it is unnatural. "It is difficult to understand why a 
child, except for its cultural conditioning, should be disturbed 
at having its genitalia touched, or disturbed at seeing the 
genitalia of other persons, or disturbed at even more specific 
sexual contacts," states Kinsey in the Female report. In sum, 
Kinsey actively promoted pedophilia as natural.

In his reports, Kinsey offered quite explicit data on 
pedophilia, including the effect of sexual acts performed on 
children ranging all the way down to six months old. Where did 
he get this data? In part, from a man of epic sexual 
perversions, who had had sex with over 800 preadolescents, as 
well as with 33 of his relatives (including his grandmother and 
father) and animals of many different species. We also suspect 
that Kinsey did his own "studies" at his Institute at Indiana 
University, but we will not know until the archives (including 
all his films) are opened to the public. One wonders how much of 
this will make it into the film?

IgnatiusInsight.com: What do you think is Kinsey's true legacy?

Wiker: He is one of the great architects of the culture of 
death, a man who saw his liberation in the destruction of every 
sexual restriction, and who methodically misused science to 
achieve his goal. Sadly, too many people didn’t see through his 
ruse, or worse, were happy to join his revolution, and his 
studies have, almost single-handedly, formed the foundation for 
contemporary sex education. Is it any wonder that we are now 
experiencing the darkness of sexual chaos in our society?

Related article: "Deadly Architects", a two-part interview with 
Wiker and Dr. Donald De Marco.

Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D., is a Lecturer in Science and Theology at 
Franciscan University and a Senior Fellow with Discovery 
Institute, focusing on Intelligent Design.

He has contributed to various Catholic publications and writes 
regularly for Crisis magazine, and is the author of Moral 
Darwinism (InterVarsity).

Visit him online at www.benjaminwiker.com.

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