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As Bad as He Was, Kinsey Was No Mengele     11/12/2004
By Robert Knight

Nazi doctor’s hands-on sadism made Kinsey’s crimes seem pale by comparison.

Nobody likes to say he was wrong, but I was wrong to compare sex researcher Alfred C. Kinsey to Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele in an interview with the Associated Press.

Kinsey committed scientific fraud, and aided and abetted the molestation of children in the name of science, but Mengele is in another class when it comes to crimes against humanity.

Without getting too graphic here, I will summarize: Mengele experimented on countless Jews in concentration camps during the Holocaust, doing unspeakable, torturous “medical experiments” without anesthesia, even on pregnant women. The details can be found in many Holocaust histories. They are the stuff of nightmares.

The point I was making, but doing so badly, was that Kinsey, like Mengele, used human beings as a means to an end, as guinea pigs. Both elevated “science” above concern for the subjects. But there is no evidence that Kinsey himself ever committed the kinds of crimes that Mengele did, and I can understand why Holocaust victims or their families would be outraged at the comparison. It either trivializes the horrors of the Holocaust, or it makes Kinsey out to be far worse than he was.

For his part, Kinsey lied about his research and encouraged pedophiles to send him data on hundreds of molested children. He did nothing to stop further molestations, and encouraged more by seeking ongoing relationships with the “researchers.” So I am still concerned that the film Kinsey is giving the public a sanitized view and keeping Kinsey’s crimes under the covers.

As an American gentile, I can’t presume to fully understand the pain involved here. But here’s what Dr. Judith Reisman, the Jewish woman who first exposed Kinsey’s vile “research”—and who, too, tragically lost most of her family in the Holocaust—has to say:

“I am stunned by the silence from the Jewish community about the 2,035 infants and children tortured [in research used by Kinsey], some around the clock for 24 hours.

“I am appalled at the silence from the Jewish community about Jewish children going up in smoke in a Polish ghetto, forced to have sex with a German Nazi who Kinsey subsequently befriended, protected and encouraged in his ongoing torture of Jewish and gentile children. Mengele tortured and destroyed hundreds, but Kinsey’s torture is a gift that keeps on giving in the broken lives and violated souls who went on to torture others worldwide. Tell them if they aren’t part of the demand for a Kinsey accounting they betray the Jewish dead, and Mengele’s victims will have died in vain. …

“If mentioning Mengele is what it takes to get my fellow Jews to respond to this horror, I’d say the comparison is not off the mark.”

As Dr. Reisman notes, Kinsey corresponded with a Nazi SS officer, Fritz von Balluseck, who molested hundreds of children, cautioning him to “watch out” for the authorities. During von Balluseck’s trial, German newspapers carried front-page headlines, exposing the Kinsey connection, and you can find a revealing account of it in Dr. Reisman’s book Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences.

In chapter five of Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948), Tables 30-34 describe pre-adolescent boys’ sexual responses, beginning at the age of 2 months, “stimulated” by men who used stopwatches and second hands of watches to record “orgasms.”

How did the pedophiles know when the child or infant reached “orgasm”? The children reacted by "violent convulsions of the whole body; heavy breathing, groaning, sobbing, or more violent cries, sometimes with an abundance of tears (especially among the younger children)" (p. 161). Despite this, Kinsey concluded that the children “enjoyed” the experience.

Paul Gebhard, Kinsey's co-author, frankly admitted that Kinsey researchers interviewed pedophiles but declined to report them to police. "'An example of criminality is our refusal to cooperate with authorities in apprehending a pedophile we had interviewed who was being sought for a sex murder,' Gebhard told an interviewer."

Yes, this is awful, all right, but I still must say, and Dr. Reisman agrees, that Mengele was a sick, murderous sadist, who is on record as personally torturing and mutilating innocent victims.

Kinsey was a monster, but it was wrong to put him in the same company with Mengele, whom we assume even now is richly reaping the consequences of his actions before a just God.

I want to thank some aggrieved family members of Holocaust victims for bringing this to my attention and prompting me to correct the record, and I apologize for any pain that I caused them.

I hope, also, that everyone will learn about the real Alfred Kinsey, whom Dr. Reisman has worked so hard—often as a lone voice— to expose.

Robert Knight is director of the Culture & Family Institute, an affiliate of Concerned Women for America.

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