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Alfred Kinsey — Part 2
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UNITED STATES C(° ERNMENT re
Memorandum
To : Mr. DeLoach pate; 5-27-65
From . M, a Sieg o
sumecr, THE 1965 KINSEY REPORTO
BY DR. PAUL GEBHARD, INDIANA UNIVERSITY
LADIES' HOME JOURNAL ~~~) ==
- JUNE, 1965
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a The second and last installment of a summary of Gebhard's book |
which will appear in July, 1965, appears in the current issue of the above magazine.
hh the first installment, May, 1965, Gebhard stated that he and his
associates feel that warnings to children Concerning sex offenders "tend to encourage
a sort of paranoid fear of all strangers and all men." He said that no significant
nuinber of offenses are prevented and that the child molester is usually not a
stranger but someone who Knows the child. .
Confinement of men accused of alleged sex crimes. He Points out that although
there should be no sympathy for the sex offender, who is oblivious to the brutality ._.
he imposes on his victim, it is/diifticult to muster sympathy for men Convicted of’
sex offenses which are crimes only by definition. He said that the "age of legal
consent" has different interpretations in the various states and prisoners have
been convicted of sexual assaults on females even though they may have Participated
willingly, -
He states that society makes a serious mistake in adopting laws and
attitudes that set teenagers apart from the adult world while, in fact, they are
capable of acting like adults. He feels that sex laws should be rewritten so that
any act between two mature People voluntarily, would be legal. He cannot understand
the attitudes expressed in the law which restricts homosexuals from relationships
in private. He also condones adultery in some instances.
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