James H. Jones

For my rather long original review, complete with mildly disturbing humor, (horror?), see the comments section below. Otherwise, here is my shorter but perspective-filled review.

From what I understand of his work, I wouldn’t really trust the Kinsey Reports to do what they are billed as doing. Kinsey was too bent on clobbering you with data and too bitterly anti-Victorian in a scientific sense to see value in the non-mathematical, even for sex. This doesn’t mean for me that sex research has no place, only that it cannot willfully dismiss all restraint with contempt as lack of toleration.

However, I don’t think Kinsey was a stupid or unsympathetic man, and the story of his journey through the post-Victorian period is worth knowing about. I too, in my life, have been exposed to fearful Victorianism and responded with bitter anti-Victorianism, and I know that this cycle is part of many people’s stories. Perhaps it is a story that needs to be told. At any rate, I know that if I have been given the grace to go beyond what I was before, still it is but for the grace of God that I do not walk another path, to which ill fortune in another world might have confined me. Certainly I know now that I am not alone, and I would that the Kinseys of the world to know that they have never been alone.… (altro)