Desexing The Kinsey Institute
Hallie Lieberman writes: ‘In 2000, an Indiana politician attacked his opponent, John Frenz, by assailing the Kinsey Institute, founded more than fifty years earlier within Indiana University. “The Kinsey Institute is the largest library of pornography of its kind in the world,†his attack ad proclaimed, elaborating that its “library contains sex-related art, studies on bestiality, obscene photographs of children,†and that the institute supported “homosexuality as an accepted lifestyle.†This politician, a strong-values conservative named Eric Holcomb, is now the governor of Indiana. What terrible infraction had Holcomb’s opponent committed? He’d voted for a state budget, of which a tiny portion funded the Kinsey Institute.’
