Pornography: Men Possessing Women, by: Andrea ... - Feminish

followers conclude that women have a low sex drive and are definedin their personalities, behaviors, and values by sexual inhibitions.Kinsey’s sexual ideology, accepted without significant modificationby those who continued his work, used the idea that women have alow sex drive to justify force against the woman who does not wantit except in the cases where force is justified because she does wantit but does not have the decency to admit it thereby causing tragicproblems for the male who forced her because he was not inhibitedand did what was natural.Kinsey counted and classified sexual acts, a technique hedescribed as “taxonomic, in the sense in which modern biologistsemploy the term.. . . The transfer from insect to human material isnot illogical, for it has been a transfer of a method that may beapplied to the study of any variable population, in any field. ”45Kinsey had spent a good part of his life as a scientist collecting andclassifying gall wasps, called by male scientists “killer wasps. ” Hetook the methods he had applied in describing the gall wasp andapplied them to human sexuality. Kinsey’s first absolute claim wasthat his method was scientific and objective, uncolored by socialprejudices or moral judgments: “That much is expected of thestudent measuring the lengths of insect wings, recording chemicalchanges that occur in a test tube, or observing the colors of thestars. It is not too much to expect similar objectivity of the studentof human behavior. ”46 Kinsey’s material on sexual acts was collectedthrough interviews. Challenged on his ability to recognizeabsolute truth in verbal descriptions of sexual acts, the objectivescientist countered: “As well ask a horse trader how he knowswhen to close a bargain. ”47** Kinsey’s sources were, in fact, much more unreliable than anyone coulddeduce from reading either of his volumes on human sexuality. In hisbiography, Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research (New York: Harper &Row, Publishers, 1972), p. 122, Wardell B. Pomeroy, a disciple andcoresearcher with Kinsey, unselfconsciously tells this story: “We had heardthrough Dr. Dickinson of a man who had kept an accurate record of alifetime’s sexual behavior. When we got the record after a long drive to takehis history, it astounded even us, who had heard everything. This man hadhad homosexual relations with 600 preadolescent males, heterosexualrelations with 200 preadolescent females, intercourse with countless adults