Whereas I will be speaking this coming Friday night on a sexual topic (Sexual By Design), and whereas I will be doing this in Bloomington, Indiana, and whereas Bloomington is the home of the Kinsey Institute, I thought I should say a little brief something about the odd backdrop.
It is a little bit like speaking in Tuskegee on ethical scientific studies, only doing so when they weren’t ashamed of the experiments done there, but rather were still proud of it. The Tuskegee experiments and the Kinsey foolishness came out of the same “modernity rocks” mindset, but the good citizens of Alabama have had the good sense to be ashamed of what happened there. Bloomington, not so much.
Alfred Kinsey was simply a world-class dirty bird. In order to accessorize his junk morality, he decided to go with junk science, and in both areas he owned and operated a junkyard the size of Rhode Island. That man was king of the footnoting mouthbreathers. He got his jollies in unspeakable ways, and still he has the kultursmog covering for him down to the present.
Now Godwin’s Law states that as online discussion progresses, the likelihood of somebody comparing somebody else to the Nazis thereby increases. We really ought all to remember Godwin’s Law, and not fling about such comparisons willy-nilly. This is not because such comparisons are never appropriate, but rather because we don’t want to debase the currency. The comparisons are sometimes right on the money, and when they are we need to have something to say. That recognition made, I would simply urge a name change — why don’t we just call it the Von Balluseck Institute instead of the Kinsey Institute? That makes the connection for us, since Von Balluseck was both a Kinsey penpal and a Nazi perv, and we can then begin to work toward a restoration of sexual sanity. Even in a place like Bloomington.