tical methods and the "relatively small" size of his sample (though others have concocted more elaborate theories from their own intuitions about one or two patients). Dr. Karl Menninger deprecated what a few thousand very talkative and unreliable individuals told Kinsey. Representative Carroll Reese threatened to investigate the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Research Council, etc., for helping finance the studies, and hinted there may have been some subversive motive in all this. Perhaps the most elaborate, though not the most responsible, criticism came from psychiatrist Edmund Bergler and gynecologist William Kroger in their slapdash book, KINSEY'S MYTH OF FEMALE SEXUALITY, charging that Kinsey's findings were statistically unreliable, that he was fooled by sex braggarts, that he couldn't distinguish normal from neurotic behavior, that he ignored psychoanalysis, ideals, love, and that Kinsey maintained sex is only for procreation, whereas Bergler-Kroger hasten to state people also have sex for fun. All this is largely nonsense. Kinsey, fully aware of sex bragging, devised snares for liars. Kinsey did not ignore love, but felt some things could be scientifically measured and some not. Far from denying that sex is often had just for pleasure, he emphasized exactly that. Nor was he ignorant of the discoveries of psychoanalysis. In their haste to label him an interloping zoologist, the minddoctors forgot that Kinsey's first-earned degree was a B.S. in psychology. He turned later to biology. Curiously, Bergler-Kroger's chief complaint was that their book mightn't get as much publicity as Kinsey's. It didn't. Kinsey had an answer for Freudians. He denied that any significant number of his cases ever passed through the "Freudian stages." He found scant evidence for the choice Freudian theory that homosexuals are victims of immature fixation.

The most pertinent criticism of Kinsey's method is that it is "atomistic," overemphasizing single, unrelated acts, tending to overlook motivation and the "whole personality." Kinsey, however, did not pretend to deal with any more than certain types of acts, subject to statistical analysis. Quaintly, most of those who attacked him on this ground should have looked to themselves. Of course,

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