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Old 18th May 2005, 03:45 PM
Knapp, Richard
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Default RE: Anyone heard of Alfred Kinsey? - off topic

The value of Kinsey, it seems to me, is to bring into question our assumptions about what is righteous behavior and what is not. Consider the source of the criticisms. Not surprising that the Catholic Church's point of view is that sex is for procreation only and not to be enjoyed for the other benefits it offers (pair bonding, for example.) The question of interest to me is not how many of Kinsey's subjects had been imprisoned (not the same thing as guilty of any real or imagined sin) but how many of his subjects appeared to be mainstream orthodox religious types.

Richard Knapp
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