It’s troubling to think that if Adolph Hitler had thought to adopt Kinsey’s favored get-up — glasses, bow tie, crew cut and, most importantly, a white lab coat — he might have acquired more American admirers.
Normally I try not to violate “Godwin’s Law,” which condemns the promiscuous use of Nazi references in disquisitions unrelated specifically to the Second World War. However, Reisman’s new book, Sexual Sabotage, compares Kinsey’s widely propagated “research” to the “black propaganda” used by the Axis during WWII, so I’ll allow myself one reductio ad hitlerum.
The Second World War is, in fact, the connective tissue of Reisman’s thesis.…
