I'm so glad you brought up Judith Reisman. Here's some interesting reading on her:
Judith Reisman is a carpetbagger in the culture wars. Traveling very light, her "expert" opinions are based less on scientific fact than on innuendo, the kind of innuendo that says more about the mind that casts it than the subject to which it is addressed. And what subject is Reisman addressing? Doctor Alfred Kinsey, and every real and imagined heir of his legacy, from sex education, to PLAYBOY, to the "homosexual agenda." Judith Reisman's opinions form THE basis of socially conservative and religious anti-sex education propaganda.[ 1 ] A veritable who's who of the religious Right have relied on her shrill and shattered logic.
Beginning in the 1970s Judith Reisman made it her personal crusade to discredit Alfred Kinsey. Her career on the Captain Kangaroo show ended badly when the free-agent singer-songwriter ran headlong into modern market research and the crushing competition of "the fast-action and increasing violence of cartoons on other stations." Retreating under the cover of artistic integrity she then turned to academia, and a career in communications and media analysis. The fact that children's minds wandered during her self-described music videos had to be about something other than the quality of her performance, and she was going to find out what it was.
The move from television celebrity to academia was not an easy one for Reisman. Seemingly intimidated by her university professor husband's colleagues, she reinvented herself as a doctor of communications, expert on pornography, and token Jewish friend of the American radical religious Right. [ 2 ]
Reisman has written extensively of her opinions of Dr. Kinsey. One of her books on Kinsey is self-published (by her now defunct Institute for Media Education).The second Kinsey book, and another on pornography are published by Huntington House Books . Huntington House, along with its subsidiary Vital Issues Press, will publish almost any book on "conservative issues, politically incorrect exposés, christian apologetics, cults/occult, evangelism, family issues, anti-globalist issues" and "patriotism/survivalism" as it says in its appeal to prospective authors.
BUT ISN'T THE TRUTH REALLY JUST BEAUTIFUL LIES?
The specious online-only Journal of Human Sexuality, sponsored by Leadership U (Campus Crusade for Christ), has published her essay, Kinsey and the Homosexual Revolution. The bulk of this tirade is comprised of 31 complex and leading questions , questions designed to prejudice the reader, questions like "...what if all of Kinsey's work was fraudulent, or worse?", and "...could not some American scientists teach pederasts and pedophiles techniques for sexually abusing children for 'science'?", and "Was Kinsey himself a closet homosexual, pedophile or pederast?"
The answer to these questions is "no," which is why they're posed as questions and not as statements. Though Dr. Reisman includes tables and footnotes, she offers no proof or support for the innuendo she directs at Kinsey. In fact, her "research methods" could call her own background into question.
In her Personal Odyssey Reisman claims that rather than accommodate the criticism of her work for the good of the Captain Kangaroo show and her child fans, she decided quit the show. But, was this the real reason? Or is this just the way Reisman chooses to cover her real crime, and deny her guilt? She IS an expert witness on child porn and pedophilia. Could the reason Reisman was asked to leave the Captain Kangaroo show be that she molested several of her young charges? No. But this is how complex questions work. In fact, after reading this article you may have difficulty remembering what was true, and what was only asked about, and forever wonder if Reisman was a child molester, even though I specifically stated that she is not.
Not exactly scientific, is it?
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