Opinion by Justin R. Garcia: In Indiana, the culture wars aim at Kinsey — the heart of sex research.
into state law. This is an unprecedented action that takes aim at the very foundation of academic freedom.
Our unbiased, apolitical, scientific approach to human sexuality makes the Kinsey Institute unique. It is also what makes the work we do so controversial.Since its founding in 1947, the institute has been the target of disinformation and attacks. The original “” drew data from the most thorough sexological study ever conducted. Both books were instant bestsellers, and Kinsey went from scientist to celebrity.
In 1950, a U.S. customs officer seized a shipment of sexually explicit images and other materials being mailed to the institute’s research collection on the basis of their being “obscene.” The federal court case that followed, As Kinsey wrote in 1956: “It is incomprehensible that we should know so little about such an important subject as sex, unless you realize thewhich have operated to dissuade the scientist, to intimidate the scientist, and to force him to cease research in these areas.”
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