Dr. Reisman Is Right About the Pedophile Agenda
By Steve Baldwin
Reprinted from The Washington Times letters section, May 4, 2002

Even as the nation’s largest religious denomination is rocked by the scandal of pedophile priests, Judith Levine, in her book “Harmful to Minors,” is making excuses for pedophilia. This is hardly a coincidence. Academic Judith Reisman, author of Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences, says pro-pedophile “sexperts” such as those lionized in Miss Levine’s book have counseled the Roman Catholic Church and other denominations for at least two decades about the harmlessness of pedophilia.

As the current media darling of the “anything goes” sexual revolution (how many authors get a pro-pedophile-favorable photo story in the New York Times?), Miss Levine gets ink and ample space to disparage anyone who differs with her — such as Mrs. Reisman, who finds children worthy of protection rather than sexual exploitation.

Miss Levine’s letter to the editor in The Washington Times is as misguided and inaccurate as her collection of statistics on sex, incest, childhood, homosexuality, sex-offender recidivism, pedophile abuse, etc. drawn from notorious pedophile advocates (“‘Children are sexual,’ says author,” April 25).

Mrs. Reisman finds at least 12 pedophile advocates among the “credible” scholars Miss Levine quotes in her book, four of whom are editors of the Journal of Paedophilia: Vern Bullough, Edward Brongersma, Theo Sandfort and Lawrence Stanley, whom Miss Levine cites as an expert who confirms that child pornography is a “myth.” According to the Columbia Journalism Review, Mr. Stanley also is affiliated with Uncommon Desires, which describes itself as a magazine “about girl-love, erotic desires, censorship and the police state.”

In her letter, Miss Levine trots out the oft-repeated and well-worn charges of the sex industry and radical left-wing academics against Mrs. Reisman. Coincidentally, the charges Miss Levine makes also were made in 1994 by “gay rights” attorneys defending Joe Steffan in Steffan vs. Perry. Their accusations were rejected based on evidence presented to the highest appeals court in the land, the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit,.

As long as Mrs. Reisman is alive, Miss Levine and her pro-pedophilia comrades cannot ignore Alfred Kinsey, the founder of what Miss Levine calls “real sex research.” Kinsey biographer James H. Jones labeled him a “covert crusader” in the New Yorker in 1997.

Kinsey, who had a massive pornography collection, declared children sexual from birth based on experiments documented in his 1948 study “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male,” page 180, Table 34. In this “study,” at least 317 infants and children, some as young as 2 months old, were “orally and manually” sodomized around the clock, using stopwatches.

Miss Levine complains that Mrs. Reisman “demonized” Kinsey’s science, but Table 34 does that by itself. The 1998 British television documentary “Kinsey’s Paedophiles” validated all of Mrs. Reisman’s findings about Kinsey’s pedophile experiments and discovered that some of Kinsey’s child data came from a German Nazi pedophile “researcher.”

In her University of Minnesota-approved tract, Miss Levine says Kinsey, whose research underlies the entire field of human sexuality as taught and practiced today, misidentified children’s “infantile bucking, straining, and relaxation” as “orgasm.” As a reporter, Miss Levine should quote Kinsey, who instead wrote that the children experienced: “Extreme tension with violent convulsion twitching violent convulsions of the whole body sobbing, or more violent cries, sometimes with an abundance of tears (especially among younger children) sadistic or masochistic reactions collapse fainting excruciating pain” and they would even “fight away from the partner,” to “avoid climax.” Kinsey concluded the children enjoyed the experience.

Thanks to Mrs. Reisman, we know the entire accredited “human sexuality field” descends from Kinsey’s research. Today’s “real sex researchers” are using ivory-tower positions to explode the last taboo — adults having sex with children. If Miss Levine and her pedophile-advocate comrades have their way, thousands of parents will find themselves helpless to protect their children from predatory adults.

Steve Baldwin is executive director of the Council for National Policy, based in Fairfax, Virginia.