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No one person has done more to shape modern sexual values in America and therefore the Western world —than Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Th
No one person has done more to shape modern sexual values in America and therefore the Western world —than Dr. Alfred Kinsey. Th
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2011-01-02
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No one person has done more to shape modern sexual values in America and therefore the Western world —than Dr. Alfred Kinsey. The researcher’s ground-breaking 1949 study, "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male", which followed by its companion work on females, tore aside the curtain of silence on sexuality and lifted the taboos on talking freely about what popular culture would previously only refer to as "makin’ whoopee".
Kinsey’s research into what makes us tick in the bedroom not only laid the groundwork for the 1960s sexual revolution, but also did the same for much of the theory behind modern-day sex education. After Sigmund Freud made his career reminding us how repressed we were, Kinsey grabbed the baton and went on to show us what we could do about it. But now his post-war glory has faded and conservative critics point to AIDS, drugs and other social ills as natural products of 1960s counter-culture. Kinsey’s star is on the wane; indeed, new allegations, some of them partly justified, are not only casting doubt on his scientific methods, but asking whether the good doctor should have been thrown in jail as a child abuser.
The anti-Kinsey ball started rolling in the 1980s when a researcher called Judith Reisman published a book, Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, questioning his methods, especially using a large number of convicts, and unconventional and promiscuous interviewees in his research, while claiming that his eventual findings on sexual nature were representative of average, heterosexual citizens.
This theme was taken up late last year by the Family Research Council in Washington, possibly the United States’ most influential group lobbying for traditional, Christian family values. Kinsey is a natural target for the organisation, since it believes that the researcher’s aim was nothing less than the destruction of traditional moral values and the initiation of a new order of free-love.
The council has just won a small victory. It recently produced a video and booklet asking serious questions about a section in Kinsey’s work in which he produced statistics on the rate of sexual climax for children as young as four months. While it now seems incredible that no one in 1949 bothered to ask how Kinsey could possibly know how young boys were reaching climax, the council finally did. The video demanded to know what experiments Kinsey did, whether they involved criminal abuse, and where those victims are now.
Since Kinsey had long gone, it was left to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University to speak on his behalf. Its director revealed a long-standing secrets no, the great man had not laid his hands on any youngsters, he said, all his information came from one single source: a paedophile who had had sex with over 300 boys. The admission has cast serious doubt on the famous doctor’s credentials (the child molester in the study conveniently died in 1955) and provided ammunition to those who wish to demonise his entire legacy.
Evidence that the anti-Kinsey movement was gaining ground came in 1994, when President Bill Clinton had to sack his Surgeon General, Joycelyn Elders, for making the Kinseyesque remark that schoolchildren should be made aware of masturbation. Now, the father of free love must be squirming in his grave.
According to the passage, Kinsey’s work can best be characterised as ______.
选项
A、conservative
B、progressive
C、problemaic
D、traditional
答案
C
解析
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