Pro-family Groups say New Kinsey Film Leaves a Story Untold
The film on Alfred Kinsey gleans over the child sex abuse and pedophilia in Kinsey's experiments and falsely glorifies the researcher, say pro-family groups.
A new movie about a etnomologist turned sex researcher Alfred Kinsey is drawing sharp criticism from pro-family groups who say the film falsely glorifies him and covers up the devastating reality of his erroneous research.
The movie titled, ”Kinsey,” which is scheduled for screenings beginning Nov. 12 before being released nationwide next week, is based on the life of Alfred Kinsey, whose controversial sex experiments, involving both children and adults, spurred the sexual revolution, according to some pro-family groups.
“What Hollywood isn’t telling the public is, well. . .very telling,” explained Matthew Pinto, co-founder of Catholic Outreach. “The movie portrays the life and work of a man who was almost single-handedly responsible for dismantling many of the sexual mores that governed American culture for two centuries.”
Director of Concerned Women for America’s Culture & Family Institute Robert Knight, who directed a 1995 documentary about Kinsey's research on child sexuality, said the movie is not telling the complete story.
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“The film paints Kinsey as a flawed but sincere cultural hero,” Knight said. “However, “it ignores the massive fraud, Kinsey’s sado-masochistic practices, and barely touches on his use of data on children in sex experiments.”
One of the most highly controversial pieces of data within Kinsey’s 1948 published work, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, was “Table 34” showing the results of sexual experiments on children as young as 2 months old. Kinsey then published Sexual Behavior in the Human Female in 1953.
Critics say Kinsey either manufactured the data on child sexuality or sexually abused children in the name of science. They also question its validity since the majority of male participants in Kinsey’s study were pedophiles and prison inmates, whose results cannot be extrapolated to reflect the entire population.
"Research has since revealed that Kinsey solicited pedophiles from known pedophile organizations to assist in child sex experiments," said Michael Craven, the National Coalition's vice president for Religious and Cultural Affairs.
"Kinsey did not even attempt to conceal these facts as they are included directly within his infamous reports on male and female sexuality released in 1948 and 1953, respectively,” Craven continue. “These 'reports' are quite possibly the most cited and less read research ever conducted."
Family Research Council has produced a documentary on the children who were used in the experiments, titled “The Children of Table 34,” and has made it available on its website (www.frc.org).
Catholic Outreach said it is planning to protest the film screenings in several cities. It also has created a website, KinseyOutreach.com, and published “The Kinsey Corruption: An Exposé on the Most Influential "Scientist" of Our Time” to expose the misinformation surrounding Kinsey’s research.
American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), organization of 2,400 state legislators, said Kinsey’s research has also affected legislation concerning marriage and unions. ALEC published a report last month that examines the influence of the controversial Kinsey sex studies on the formation of legal and educational policies across the United States.
Former ALEC president Ray Haynes said, "As Kinsey intended, contemplated in the current debate are calls for 'discrimination' laws to protect the full range of sexual activities including transvestitism, transgenderism, polygamy, bestiality and the like and, in education, whether to teach our children all 'alternate' sexual acts as normal — or to teach chastity and abstinence until marriage."
In the report’s introduction, Haynes wrote: "Today, Kinsey's 'junk science' is the unquestioned foundation for all the legal, legislative and media debate on marriage and civil unions," said Focus on the Family's manager of abstinence policy, Linda Klepacki, noted that sex education in today’s classrooms stemmed from Kinsey’s findings.
"The basis of comprehensive sex education has been the fact that Kinsey 'proved' that we are sexual beings from birth," Klepacki said. "Kinsey's sex crimes have been covered up by zealous colleagues to further their agenda of free sex with any age at any time. . . We see it everywhere today in our expansive media and in public school sex education."
“Instead of being lionized,” said Knight, “Kinsey’s proper place is with Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele or your average Hollywood horror flick mad scientist.”
