Judith Reisman

Judith A. Reisman is the president of Restoring Social Virtue & Purity to America (RSVPAmerica) that distributes material that criticises modern sexual viewpoints and sex education based on Alfred Kinsey's work. She also lobbies against pornography, and alleges that there is a large-scale effort by "establishment media" to "recruit" children into homosexuality. Since the late 1980s, she has extensively criticized Kinsey and the Kinsey Reports. Her publications have been frequently distributed and funded by conservative organizations, and used as arguments to reduce funding for sexology, which, Reisman claims, is not really a science but a cover for pro-homosexual/pedophile campaigners to obtain funding.

She holds both a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Communications from Case Western Reserve University.

Criticism of Alfred Kinsey's work

In the book Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, Reisman claims that Kinsey employed unrepresentative proportion of prison inmates and pedophiles to obtain data about child sexual behavior. This was not a novel accusation, however. A 1948 American Statistical Association report entitled Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male concluded similarly. Kinsey's colleague Abraham Maslow also pointed out the bias inherent in people volunteering information.

Reisman's novel contribution is the suggestion that parts of the elaborate descriptions that Kinsey et al obtained by inmates and sex offenders of the children's sexual behavior ("gasping, eyes staring", "groaning, sobbing, or more violent cries, sometimes with an abundance of tears") as evidence that the children were tortured against their will. The documentary "The Children of Table 34", produced by the conservative Family Research Council, purports to tell the story of Dr. Reisman's discovery of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's systematic sexual abuse of 317 male children".

This claim is denied by the Kinsey Institute, who point out that the diaries containing these quotes were written long before the research was started, and that Reisman has had access to the material showing this. See Kinsey Reports.

Based on claims about Kinsey's personal sexual conduct, Reisman concludes that Alfred Kinsey deliberately promoted a pro-sexual agenda which since dominated American schools and media. This, she argues, led to a massive increase in sexual diseases, and that the public was convinced that homosexual and pedophile sexual behavior are harmless.

Activism against homosexuality

In Crafting "Gay" Children, Reisman claims that homosexuals are trying to recruit children through schools and the mainstream media, attempts to link homosexuality with pedophilia, accuses Kinsey of abnormal sexual practices, and attributes his early death to excessive "self-abuse" (masturbation). She alleges that the only correct response to homosexuality is "recovery" such as the "therapy" offered by the International Healing Foundation. Based on the links she sees between homosexuality and pedophilia, she states:

And, as there is, on the evidence, a definite connection between homosexuality and the myriad pathologies, including pedophilia, schools and youth organizations should be legally liable for allowing bi/homosexuals any authority or influence over children. This is a sure way to severely limit the traffic in child pornography and prostitution.

Activism against pornography

Dr. Reisman directed a two year content analysis of Images of Children, Crime, and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler for the Department of Justice. According to the study findings, each issue of Hustler averaged 14.1 children and pseudo-children alongside 47 images of crime and violence: 52 percent of child photos were sexually explicit and most cartooned children were sexually violated, particularly in the long running Chester the Molester comic. She also claims that in 1978, Hustler published photographs of naked children as young as three-years of age alongside an article, "Children, Sex, and Society", advocating an end to age of consent laws, calling for acceptance of Adult-Child sex, and legalization of incest.

Activism against nudism

Reisman offers this observation on nude beaches and nudism:

The majority of the pedophile images that we have, the majority of the child pornography that we get out of the United States of America comes from nude beaches.

Criticism

Dr. Reisman's work has been criticised by a number of different organisations, and in the past her actions have proven to be controversial. Reisman was in the early 1980's given a grant for $734,371 by the US Department of Justice to study pictures in Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler. Reisman used the grant to confirm her conclusion of "Kinsey's role in child sexual abuse and the link to children appearing in mainstream pornography..." The work which Reisman produced was later denied publication by the American University, where the study was based. The person who commissioned the study later said of it:

"It was a scientific disaster, riddled with researcher bias and baseless assumptions. The American University (AU), where Reisman's study had been academically based, actually refused to publish it when she released it, after their independent academic auditor reported on it. Dr Robert Figlio of the University of Pennsylvania told AU that, 'The term child used in the aggregate sense in this report is so inclusive and general as to be meaningless.' Figlio told the press, 'I wondered what kind of mind would consider the love scene from Romeo and Juliet to be child porn'. (Carol, 1994, p.116)"

Dr. Reisman then caused further controversy by going as far to imply that the reason her work was not published was in fact due to the Kinsey Institute [1]

Dr. Reisman also had further conflict with the Kinsey Institute when she filed lawsuit against the Institution for "defamation of character" and "slander", which supposedly occurred in a statement given by the Institution in response to Reisman's assertion in "Kinsey, Sex, and Fraud" that Kinsey's research involved illegal experimentation on several hundred children. [2] Reisman's attorney withdrew from the case, and the case was eventually "dismissed with prejudice" from the court. Reisman was barred from re - filing.

Dr. Reisman's contribution to science, and scientific credentials have also been brought into question. Reisman holds a Ph.D. in Communications, and some have claimed that Reisman is not qualified in her field, and thus cannot support her claims to being a scientist [3].

A number of professionals in the scientific community have also criticised Reisman, Dr. Loretta Haroian, the cochair of the plenary session of Child and Adolescent Sexuality at the 1984 World Congress of Sexology, an expert on childhood sexuality, commented on Reisman's work:

"This is not science, it's vigilantism: paranoid, pseudoscientific hyperbole with a thinly veiled hidden agenda. This kind of thing doesn't help children at all. ... [Reisman's] study demonstrates gross negligence and, while she seems to have spent a lot of time collecting her data, her conclusions, based on the data, are completely unwarranted. The experts Reisman cites are, in fact, not experts at all but simply people who have chosen to adopt some misinformed, Disneyland conception of childhood that she has. These people are little more than censors hiding behind Christ and children." (Carol, 1994, p.116). [ 7 ]

Miscellaneous

Since August 27, 2005 Reisman's official site, http://www.drjudithreisman.com, links from the front page and from the reference page to the anti-globalist site of Henry Makow, http://www.savethemales.ca.

References

• The Lancet, 'Really, Dr Kinsey?' (Book Reviews, Vol. 337: March 2, 1991, p. 547)
• The Lancet, (Vol. 350(9094): March 20, 1997, p1862)
• A.C. Kinsey, W.B. Pomeroy, C.E. Martin, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, (Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1948)
• A.C. Kinsey, W.B. Pomeroy, C.E. Martin, P.H. Gebhard, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, (Philadelphia, PA: W.B. Saunders, 1953)
• Dr. Judith A. Reisman, Edward W. Eichel, Dr. John H. Court & Dr. J. Gordon Muir, Kinsey, Sex and Fraud, (Lafayette, LA: Lochinvar-Huntington House Publishers, 1990).
• Dr. Judith A. Reisman: Crafting "Gay" Children. An Inquiry Into the Abuse of Vulnerable Youth via Government Schooling & Mainstream Media. Online Version.
• Martin Duberman, "Kinsey's Urethra". The Nation, November 3, 1997, pp. 40-43. Online Version.

External links

• Judith A Reisman home page
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• Sex on the brain, The Guardian (July 14, 2005)