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YahooThe Kinsey Institute has a call for artists, 18 and older, to submit to it's second annual juried erotic art show, which will take place April 13th - July 20th, 2007.
After previewing the pamphlet (PDF), I have to say the Kinsey Institute continues to rape people in the late Alfred Kinsey's name.
Submissions cost each artist $25 ($30 for two entries, $40 for three entries) plus pre-paid shipping. The one and only prize, besides being recognized by an Institute who's founder allegedly sexually tortured up to 2035 children, including some as young as 2 months of age, is $200, and the award of "Best in Show."
Don't know who Alfred Kinsey is? Read on as Marlow Shade explains and links to a report published by Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Family Institute, Concerned Women for America:
If like me you are wondering why the NEA and SEICUS are so motivated to sexualize our kids and rob them of the innocent idyll of childhood, here is a good place to start. Once you better understand Kinsey, his "inner life" and the agenda he created that has now permeated our schools and criminal justice system, you'll start to get an inkling of what a threat successful abstinence programs are to these shock troops of the Sexual Revolution.
Absolute Zero has posted an interview with Dr. Judith Reisman, the President of the Institute for Media Education, and author of Kinsey, Sex and Fraud and Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences. She discusses Alfred Kinsey's research in relation to today's sexualization of children:
The most compelling finding is probably how dependent the entire "field" of human sexuality is upon Kinsey and his reputation. I admit to being surprised that I found no real support at all in the academic world for these obvious, well documented findings. Despite evidence, smoking guns galore, the Kinsey Institute continues unhindered, financed by state, federal and private foundation money. Now the merger of Big Pharmacology, Big Pornography, Big Sexology and Big Media is a multi billion dollar corporate merger. The money made of sexual dysfunction, depression, disease, abortion, and all of the fallout from that in STD vaccines mandated for children, etc., makes Big Tobacco look like a nursery school party.
It is my duty to inform that The Kinsey Institute has a page in response to Dr. Judith Reisman's book and another in response to the movie Kinsey (2004: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney).
After all the reading I did for this piece, the only thing I would want to submit to this Institute would be a sculpture of Alfred Kinsey's testicles on a platter.
Contributing Editor Karen Rani also blogs at Troll Baby, Motherless, and owns Troll Baby Graphics.
About Kinsey and sex: I strongly disagree
Liz Henry October 5, 2006 - 9:06pm
I'm sure it's no surprise that I completely disagree on about a million levels.
For one thing, an erotic art contest is not rape and abuse...
For me as a non-Christian, and a political progressive, anything involving the "Concerned Women for America" is extremely suspect. What about this interview proves anything at all? On what evidence are they calling Kinsey a pederast, or pedophile? Am I going to have to go read one of this woman's books in order to take it apart piece by piece?
In fact, that interview with Reisman is a senseless homophobic rant. Reisman's accusations against Kinsey conflate child abuse and pedophilia with queerness and kink, when she calls him "a fanatic sexual psychopath, a bi/homosexual pornographically addicted adulterous sadomasochistic male with obvious proclivities for young boys".
Yes there are problems with sex research, in fact lots of other medical research and anthropological/sociological studies & ethics; with Viagra and big pharma, and with porn and feminism. However, let's keep our analysis smart and complicated.
As for what Reisman says about Kinsey choosing "disordered" people to do his research... Oh, great. What a huge distortion of things. Who should do sexuality research then? Bible-thumping fanatics? Yes, I'm mad, and I'm name-calling now, and hostile, because I feel personally attacked -- Am I disordered, and a psychopath, like Kinsey, for believing in sex education for children, in vaccinating boys and girls against HPV? Am I disordered and a psychopath for being bisexual, ("bi/homosexual") as Kinsey was? For advocating being an "ethical slut"? For all the ways someone like Reisman would consider me a "deviant" who should be locked up? For believing in exposing the truth of how real people behave, instead of how we think they should inherently "be"?
"Abstinence education" does not work. I stand with feminists like Jessica Valenti at Feministing, Pam Spaulding and Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon, and Pinko Feminist Hellcat ... I link to their posts just to get the nasty taste of Reisman's idiotic hatred out of my mouth... and in fact while I'm at it I'll just declare my enthusiastic approval of organizations like Planned Parenthood that provide sex ed and health care for teenagers and for all girls and women.
How depressing and disheartening, and shocking, to read this, right here in what I think of as my own community. On the other hand, if people think that way, I prefer to know it right up front.
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Liz Henry
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