Dr. Judith Reisman: “Sexual beings” is “direct Kinsey fallout”
This morning, I contacted Dr. Judith Reisman by e-mail, asking her if she knew the provenance of the term “sexual beings.” Dr. Reisman has spent a considerable part of her life exposing the fraudulent statistical data Kinsey used in support of changing sexual mores during the 1930s-50s in the United States, not to mention numerous unseemly sexual details about Kinsey himself.
Here is part of Dr. Reisman’s response:
From: jareisman@cox.net [mailto:jareis...@cox.net]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 2:38 PM
To: Robert Baker
Subject: Re: GreetingsDear Dr. Baker,
That is the direct Kinsey fallout, of all children are sexual from birth to Planned Parenthood’s Mary Calderone to the fields of psychology, social work, sociology psychiatry and the general society. Calderone extended it to the womb, claiming a boy baby has an erection in the womb thus proving “sexuality” in the womb.
I discuss this in my book Kinsey Crimes and Consequences. . .
Best, JA Reisman
As I mentioned here, sexual beings is used several times in Human Sexuality: A Theological Perspective, published by The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod’s Commission on Theology and Church Relations (1981). This is all the more important given the recent passage of Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America at its General Assembly meeting in Minneapolis this week.
Actually, the ELCA sexuality statement uses the term sexual beings three times:
Erotic desire, in the narrow sense, is only one component of the relational bonds that humans crave as sexual beings. (lines 355-356, p. 11).
The counsel to love and care for the neighbor is not a command that is foreign to our created natures; rather, reaching out in love and care is part of who we are as relational and sexual beings. (lines 361-363, p. 11)
We are sexual beings from the beginning of our lives. (line 884, p. 24).
Note again similar verbiage from SIECUS (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States):
All persons are sexual, in the broadest sense of the word. . . Sexual feelings, desires, and activities are present throughout the life cycle.
We are all sexual. We are sexual from the day we are born until the day we die. Our sexuality affects who we are and how we express ourselves as sexual beings.
And now, Human Sexuality: A Theological Perspective:
Few characteristics so deeply stamp our selfhood as our maleness and femaleness. In fact, it is quite impossible for us to know ourselves as God’s good creation without a recognition of our identity as sexual beings. . . what Jesus did to redeem us from the power of sin and its affect on our lives as sexual beings. . . it is hoped that the affirmations stated at the end of the study will provide guidance for Christians as they seek to order their lives as sexual beings. . . (pp. 4-5).
More later. For now, here is the first part of a video about Alfred Kinsey:
