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The conservative backlash against the Kinsey Reports was far-reaching. It eventually led to a congressional investigation of Kinsey’s financial support, which prompted his backers to drop their funding of his ongoing studies. Dr. Gagnon noted:
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In high school, Kinsey was a quiet but extremely hard-working student. He was not interested in sports, but rather devoted his prodigious energy to academic work and the piano. At one time, Kinsey had hoped to become a concert pianist, but decided to concentrate on his scientific pursuits instead. Kinsey's ability early on to spend immense amounts of time deeply focused on study was a trait that would serve him well in college and during his professional career. Kinsey seems not to have formed strong social relationships during high school, but he earned respect for his academic ability. While there, Kinsey became interested in biology, botany and zoology.
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The most striking component of Reumann’s book is the extent of the public discussion the Kinsey reports generated. She brings to her work some 25 pages of references, including cartoons, magazines, governmental debates, print and screen fiction, additional survey studies, and scholarly essays from such notables as Margaret Mead, Toni Morrison and Michel Foucault.
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In 1924, Kinsey fell passionately in love with one of his graduate students, Ralph Voris. Their relationship continued into the 1930s--even after Voris's marriage, and it seemed to some degree to include both their wives.
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Painstaking scientist that he was, Kinsey was appalled by the small amount of information that was available to answer students' questions. Most of it, he said, was "biased by moral, philosophic, or social interpretations."
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Kinsey's studies do not say much about sadomasochistic behaviors. Some 12% of females and 22% of males reported having an erotic response to a sadomasochistic story, and 55% of females and 50% of males reported having responded erotically to being bitten, (p. 677-8, Female).
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