Before Drag Queen Story Hour, There Was Alfred Kinsey

Grassroots organizations from seven countries recently joined forces in Washington, D.C., looking to America to stop the sexualization of children where it started: with the research of Alfred Kinsey.

Kinsey’s fraudulent research and criminal experiments in the 1940s and ’50s ignited the sexual revolution with the lies that sexual perversion is normal and that children are sexual from birth. His reports, “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male” and “Sexual Behavior in the Human Female,” laid the groundwork for comprehensive sexuality education and the repeal of legal protections for women and children.

Through the United Nations, Kinsey’s perversion has spread worldwide, and grassroots leaders from around the world are calling on Congress to step in.

There was a chance to do so in 1995, when Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas proposed H.R. 2749. The bill would have required an investigation to determine whether Kinsey’s research resulted from “fraud or criminal wrongdoing” — and defunded agencies and institutions teaching it as credible if that was the case.

It was. “Female” volume co-author and former Kinsey Institute Director Paul Gebhard later admitted it.

Kinsey interviewed prisoners and prostitutes to determine “normal” sexual behavior and used data from sexual experiments on children as young as five months old to support his claim that children are sexual from birth.

Kinsey’s Work Weakened Protections

Kinsey’s “science” was used — as he intended — to transform social science, culture, law, and education. Fifty-two state laws protecting women and children were weakened or repealed as states shifted from the common law to the Model Penal Code, which was based on Kinsey’s research. Many states exempted schools, museums, and libraries from laws against distributing pornography to children. Penalties for sexual crimes were lessened, and plea bargains became the norm.

After reading Kinsey’s work in college, Hugh Hefner founded Playboy, reportedly proclaiming himself “Kinsey’s pamphleteer.” Now the internet has enabled pornography to become even more prevalent, normalizing abusive and violent sexual behavior and fueling the demand for sex trafficking.

But Congress has refused to investigate, and children around the world have paid the price.

In 2014, the Kinsey Institute was given consultative status at the United Nations, allowing it to submit written statements and make oral presentations, and the UN’s Comprehensive Sexuality Education has taken his ideas worldwide, basing its guidance on the belief that children “want and need sexuality and sexual health information as early and comprehensively as possible.”

Follow Indiana’s Lead and Defund

In 2023 my organization, Purple for Parents United, worked with Indiana legislators to end state funding of the Kinsey Institute — which still operates on the campus of Indiana University — and ban pornography in Indiana schools. We’ve done, and continue to do, our part at the state level. It’s time for the federal government to step in.

The International Coalition4Children that came together in Washington, D.C., called on members of Congress to revive H.R. 2749.

If Congress had investigated and eradicated Kinsey’s influence in 1995, the world’s children would not have been perverted by it.

It is time for Congress to do what it should have done 30 years ago: investigate Kinsey’s crimes and fraud and defund any agency or institution that promotes them.

This article has been updated since publication.

Rhonda Miller is the CEO of Purple for Parents United, a grassroots organization that informs, advocates, and engages people to protect children from harmful agendas saturating the culture.

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