Posted on 10/09/2017 5:05:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
If Hugh Hefner was the poster boy of the sexual revolution, Alfred Kinsey was the father of the revolution. But that is not the only thing that joins these men together. Both of them were overt rebels against “puritanical” Christianity, devoting their lives to “liberate” humanity from what they perceived to be the bondage of a sterile, restrictive morality.
Kinsey was born in 1894 and died in 1956. His claim to fame was his 1948 volume, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, followed by his 1953 volume, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female. (Is it a coincidence that it was in 1953 that Hefner published the first edition of Playboy, featuring the Marilyn Monroe nudes?)
Kinsey twice made it to the cover of Time Magazine, and in 1953, Time even claimed that “he has done for sex what Columbus did for geography . . . .”
Despite this fanfare, and despite the rather tame summary of his life on Wikipedia (“an American biologist, professor of entomology and zoology, and sexologist”), Kinsey was by all accounts a sexual pervert. As summarized by Susan Brinkman, “He was a pederast who enjoyed public nudity, made explicit sex films and eventually developed such an extreme sadomasochistic form of autoeroticism that some believe it caused his untimely death in 1956.”
Yet it was not enough for him to reputedly have sex with men, women, minors, and family members. Instead, as Judith Reisman notes, “Kinsey solicited and encouraged pedophiles, at home and abroad, to sexually violate from 317 to 2,035 infants and children for his alleged data on normal ‘child sexuality.’ Many of the crimes against children (oral and anal sodomy, genital intercourse and manual abuse) committed for Kinsey’s research are quantified in his own graphs and charts.”
This is the man celebrated as the “father of the sexual revolution.” In his own words, “there are only three kinds of sexual abnormalities: abstinence, celibacy and delayed marriage.”
And what of his religious upbringing? When asked if Kinsey’s religious background influenced his research in any way,” Brinkman responded, “Absolutely. Kinsey was born into a strict Methodist home in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1894. Dancing, tobacco, alcohol and dating were all forbidden. He eventually severed all ties with his parents — and their religion — and lived the rest of his life as an avid atheist.”
Kinsey was at war with God and with traditional religion, which to him were one and the same. (For the definitive study of the man, see the 939-page volume of James H. Jones, Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life, published in 1997.)
The legacy of Hugh Hefner, who just passed away at the age of 91, is much better known to contemporary Americans, whose lives he has influenced dramatically.
Gone are the days when pornography was hard to find. Today it is ubiquitous.
Gone are the days when nudity was shameful and a celebrity sex tape would forever destroy someone’s career (not to mention life). Today, it is fashionable to strip down to nothing, while a leaked sex tape can jump start a career.
In short, we’ve gone from Lassie to Game of Thrones and from The Facts of Life to Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Eight-year-old children now access porn; middle-schoolers engage in sexting; hundreds of thousands of teenage girls have STD’s; and having kids out of wedlock is as normal as going to work in the morning.
As for Hefner’s religious upbringing, he said he was raised as a “conservative, Midwestern, Methodist,” painting “a picture of guilt-ridden Puritanism, an environment and lifestyle he rejected and that caused him to become the ‘pamphleteer’ of the sexual revolution.”
As for his beliefs about God and traditional religion, he considered himself agnostic and remarked, “It’s perfectly clear to me that religion is a myth.”
Like Kinsey, he devoted his life to “liberating” people from the mores of this Puritanical faith, stating, “I believe embracing sexuality is a part of what it means to be free.”
Yes, the Christian religion itself was the oppressive enemy: “Historically,” he said, “the Puritans left England to escape religious persecution, and they promptly turned around and started persecuting the people they didn't agree with - the scarlet letter A, and the stocks and the dunking board came from that. That puritanism is still there.”
And it was “that puritanism” he gave his life to combat, dying as the epitome of a dirty old man. (For a sarcastic dig, see the article titled, “A Beautiful Tribute: This Old Decrepit Man Wandered Around His House In Pajamas Today Leering At His Granddaughter’s Friends In Honor Of Hugh Hefner.”)
What is the offshoot of all this?
First, one has to wonder if either of these men were ever exposed to a vibrant, life-transforming, joyful, positive expression of the Christian faith.
Could it be that they first rebelled against legalism? Could it be that their war was initially with traditional religion, a religion of laws and commandments and regulations, all negative, as in “Thou shalt not,” and all imposed from the outside in? Could it be that all they saw was a restrictive faith rather than a redemptive faith?
This kind of religion does more harm than good, trying to legislate spirituality and enforce morality rather than introducing people to a living Christ who truly liberates and transforms.
Not only is this a cautionary tale for conservative Christian parents, it’s a reminder for pastors and religious leaders: We cannot ultimately force people to do the right thing. We can only set good examples, advocate for what is right, and engage in active evangelism.
Second, whatever the root cause of their rebellion might have been, in the end, it was clearly a war against “the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God,” to quote the Declaration of Independence. These men were rebels and sex-addicts, spreading a message and lifestyle that has brought bondage rather than freedom to untold millions. And although we had plenty of faults and blemishes in post-World War II America, we were a far more innocent, family-friendly nation in the days before Kinsey and Hefner.
What we know is that their legacy is undeniably shameful. The question is, can it be reversed?
(For practical thoughts on how a purity revolution can displace the sexual revolution, see my new book Saving a Sick America: A Prescription for Moral and Cultural Transformation, in particular Chapter Ten.)
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Kinsey Sex and Fraud: The Indoctrination of a People
by Judith A Reisman, PhD, J Gordon Muir (Editor), Edward Eichel
this book came out in the 90’s and she was the first person to raise the alarm about Kinsey’s research. He was a sick and perverted man.
Something not mentioned: Christianity itself, as a faith, did not start this fight. What did was people cloaking themselves in Christianity, to control government and afflict others with their sectarian sensibilities.
Today, a great example of how *bad* this can get is found in Europe, where those nations with an “official” religion controlled by the government, has decayed beyond corrupt and are utterly failing. Examples include the Church of England in the UK, a form of Anglicanism so devolved that even the Anglican communion (mostly in Africa) is disgusted with them.
In the Norse countries, the state religions have failed so much that people are returning, more or less, to paganism.
In any event, back to the US.
At the time, during and after WWII, the “Bible Belt” dominated middle America. It seemed like most towns had their governments, the real power was held by a small cabal of sectarian people, who bullied and coerced others into behaving as they saw fit. It didn’t matter what religion people belonged to, unless it was the dominant one, they were shut out of much of the social life of the town, and political power.
Such towns were segregated into a white side and a black side, and while the white government technically ruled over all, the black side had its own “shadow government” that would direct its own internal affairs.
And this system of control and bullying was decrepit, almost moribund, and generally despised.
Into this picture entered Herman B. Wells, as the new president of Indiana University at Bloomington, IN.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_B_Wells
When he took over as acting president, IU was a failed parochial school in the boondocks. Intentionally away from Indianapolis, connected only by a bad road, its faculty were mostly unqualified political hacks with little interest in education. The school was like a minimum security prison to keep young people “out of trouble” by strictly morally controlling their lives, in an ugly and oppressive manner.
Wells changed all of that in record time, firing the bad faculty and bringing in young and talented instructors, and he had a gift for bringing in the big bucks to rebuild the school as a modern university.
So IU became a center of learning in the middle of the Bible Belt, and former headquarters of the second Ku Klux Klan.
What really got the ball rolling was that Wells did this in time for the returning WWII veterans on the GI Bill. They were focused on getting an education, getting a good job, getting married, having children, and living the American dream.
And woe to anyone who stood in their way. Which, as you might guess, was what the ‘Christian-governments’ tried to do.
And Wells launched his counter-attack. He did so by inviting the scoundrel Kinsey to *rent* facilities on the IU campus, but not under the auspices of the school, so outside of the control of the state authorities, who tried repeatedly to stop it.
It should be noted that, at the time, the students attending IU thought it was all a big joke. So lots of them volunteered to answer utterly perverted questionnaires put out by Kinsey, which they bragged they had lied like dogs in doing.
As it turned out, that was exactly what much of the US wanted to hear right then. Sick to death of governmental morality, sectarian religious controls, segregation both by sex and color. It really was a revolution.
As far as Hugh Hefner went, oddly enough a comedy movie best illustrated what he was about. ‘The Love God’, starring Don Knotts. Well worth a look to see the context of Hefner at his start. More than anything else it showed the conflict between the old way and the new ways.
Another example of this cynicism was Arthur Miller’s Crucible, which somehow portrayed puritans in an evil light, when it was in fact a very corrput and perverted judge who was winking with a whore in order to get convicted good people who admitted were flawed but were humble enough to see there was better than them in Christ. For this they did not get forgiven but it was used against them in convictions.
To this day the liberals along with the Heffner types use the admission of sin of Christians to convict them while they go along with the islamic bull aht or the ho osexual supremacism in atheistic sin (an irrational aesthetic and PC form of atheism completely opposed to real science based atheists).
Your screed smacks of some sort of deep seated resentment. I actually have other explanations for the "sexual revolution" that do not include rebellion against oppressive moral standards.
1. Hitler.
2. Antibiotics.
3. Birth Control pills.
The question that Clint Eastwood asked in 'Absolute Power', "What face do you put on the demon in the night" is a question that no atheist wants to think about.
Amazing that it took someone almost 50 years to challenge Kinsey and his doctored data. And for her efforts, Dr. Reisman was roundly pilloried by many in academia, for daring to question Kinsey’s “findings.”
Calling him sick and perverted might be an understatement; while Kinsey’s death (in 1956) was attributed to pneumonia, he actually died from advanced STDs brought on by his various sexual proclivities. And of course, much of his “work” on sexuality in children was based on interviews with pedophiles—who were not identified as such in his research. Kinsey’s “work” (and I used that term loosely) was a lie, pure and simple. Yet it is still accepted as gospel, because it fits the desired narrative and moral standards for a lost society.
Well, actually my parents were attending IU at the time Kinsey arrived, and they and my grandparents were from the area. My paternal grandfather had been a traveling textbook salesman through the region during the depression, so got to see a lot of that. He later became a high school principal and eventually was elected as a mayor of a town.
So I am talking about second hand stories from six people.
The first birth control pill wasn’t available until 1960.
And I have zero idea how you connect the sexual revolution to Hitler other than soldiers having a lot of pent up sexual tension while fighting the Nazis. And don’t forget to blame the Japanese while you’re at it.
War. Call up several million men out of a population and you leave behind a very female dense environment. Historically, when females have to compete for the remaining males it forces them into a "bidding war" against the other females, and I don't have to tell you what the winners have to offer to beat out the competition.
Populations with an overabundance of females always skew towards the sexually libertine, not just ours during and after world war II, but during other such occasions in history.
The loss of men caused by Hitler's militarism also affected the populations of Germany, Britain, Russia and pretty much all of Europe.
and what were all those millions of men doing while deployed on their off time?....how many babies born through out the world from deployed sailors and soldiers...
you accuse women left behind as having some sort of sexual orgy...NOT!...but you forget about the men who left and what they did while out of the country..
not that it was unexpected....
and article starts out with info about men who corrupted our culture and its telling that somehow someone blames it all on those nasty women....
It's a given that men are dogs. Men have insatiable sexual appetites. The control over whether or not men will have sex, is up to women. When men are abundant and women are scares, women exercise that control far more judiciously. When women are plentiful and men are scarce, they relax that control.
Men are always willing to devolve into "orgies" if they can. It is the women who decide if and when they can. When so many men are killed, or shipped over seas, the women, who's numbers are still the same as before, have to work harder at getting a man from the pool that is left, and that pretty much works out to having to offer sex as an incentive.
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