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Kinsey's Stranglehold on Sex Education
By Susan Brinkmann
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After Kinsey’s death, co-authors Wardell Pomeroy, Clyde Martin, and Paul Gebhard remained at the Institute and began to train others in Kinsey’s "new biology." Pomeroy left the institute in 1968 to become the director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco, which offered the most extensive training available in the Kinsey model. (Pomeroy, who was also a board member of the Penthouse Forum, was joined in this venture by other major pornography personalities such as Hustler magazine contributors Ted McIlvenna and Erwin Haeberle.) Other accredited sexology degrees in Kinsey’s "new biology" became available from the New York University Health Department’s School of Education, directed by homosexual activist Deryck Calderwood, who later died of AIDS. The University of Pennsylvania Department of Health’s School of Education began offering similar training and degrees, directed by homosexual activist Kenneth George.
These three major academic centers became the first institutions to grant degrees in human sexuality, training teachers, counselors, and safe-sex coaches. The "sexologists" who graduated from these programs went on to design and implement the sex-education curricula for American youth of all ages. They did this through the establishment of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex (SSSS), a joint venture by Pomeroy, Gebhard, Calderwood, and Vern Bullough (then-editor of Paidika: The Journal of Pedophilia). The SSSS then established a Commission of Accreditation for the field of sexology. They granted approval only to those who espoused Kinsey’s beliefs.
Examples of course work to fulfill sexology degree requirements: Sexual Attitude Restructuring, Erotic Massage, Self Massage, Fantasy, Masturbation, Forensic Sexology, and Sex Surrogate Use in Therapy (see Reisman, Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences, 2nd ed., 174–80).
With grant money provided by the Playboy Foundation, the Kinsey Institute in 1964 launched its own organization, the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) to promote its "new biology."
The American Society of Sex Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (a Kinsey-based organization founded in 1967 by Drs. Phyllis Schiller and Albert Ellis) applies the Kinsey model to public outreach agencies such as Planned Parenthood and from them into classrooms.
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