The Kinsey correspondence

Sex researcher Alfred Kinsey wrote 3 letters in 1950 to F-48/Axel Axgil. We cannot show the copies of the letters we have obtained from The Kinsey Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, USA due to the policy of the institute.

Kinsey asked to the publication of F-48 "Vennen", but was quite unaware of the German and Dutch gay movements and their publications. He was also told by Axgil of a  group of gay Texanians started up by a norwegian member of NF-48. The letters from Alfred Kinsey were extremely polite, even if Kinsey was cautious on behalf of the Institute of not lending his name to the publication of "Vennen".

It is interesting how provinsial and uninformed the Kinsey Institute was in 1950, two years after the publication of the Kinsey report on male sex; Kinsey only knew of the gay "Der Kreis" in Switzerland. From the dates of the letters, we find that Kinsey in one case wrote a revealing warm letter to homosexual friends in the same batch. This letter can be found in Thomas Waugh�s book "Hard to Image", Harvard, 1996 which also contains pictures from "Vennen".

 

50 years after the Kinsey Report in 1948 a new biography showed that Alfred Kinsey was as gay as his forerunner Magnus Hirschfeld.   It has also been revealed that some of the scientific findings were flawed and somewhat driven by his own agenda.   The critics in their turn are also driven by agendas - religious or feminist - that only are too happy to wind the clock back or burn sex reports written by men. The prime Kinsey-detractor, Dr. Judith Reisman is also an angry and emotional  "Gay Holocaust"-denier.   Freud has survived similar attacks, and Hirschfeld financed his institute partly by extorsion.   Being pioneers apparently require driven and strange personalities, but the world would be different without them.