Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation & Political Control by E. Michael Jones

Author:E. Michael Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf, mobi
Published: 2016-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

Bloomington, Indiana, 1942

Kinsey may have lost his battle with the Peoria school board in early 1942, but his stature with the Rockefeller Foundation and its surrogates continued to rise. In December 1942 Robert Yerkes and two of his colleagues at the NRC made a trip to Bloomington “to get fully acquainted with Dr. Kinsey and his methods of work.”1 Kinsey was now at the height of his power as a sex investigator, and he used that power to ensnare the people who held the purse strings which supported him, ensuring a steadily increasing flow of foundation money for the next twelve years. Kinsey, according to Jones, “had no intention of becoming an agent of social control.”2 However, Kinsey’s behavior following the arrival of the “three wise men from the east,” indicates otherwise. It also indicates that Jones can’t read his own text, for the visit to Bloomington - what later became known as “the treatment” -was an exercise in the use of sexual liberation as a form of control from the very beginning, something which becomes clear from Jones’s own description of it.

No sooner had his visitors checked into their rooms at the IU student union than Kinsey had them over at Morrison Hall looking at pornography, which was a prelude to taking their sexual histories. According to Jones, “Yerkes, Comer and Reed agreed to give Kinsey their sex histories so that they could evaluate his ability to secure accurate data.” But it is clear, even from Jones’s account, that Kinsey had ulterior motives, motives which Jones can admit to himself only reluctantly. Kinsey, according to Jones, “would control and they would react; and at the end of the interviews, he would possess their secrets ,but they would not know him.... Kinsey had built a life on the principle that knowledge is power. He understood full well that taking their histories would give him leverage. . . . Once they contributed their histories, they would surrender their privacy, an act of trust that would force them to rely on his pledge of confidentiality.”3

Jones describes Kinsey’s encounter with the three wise men using all the rhetoric of psycho-sexual control without once admitting the most obvious fact, namely, that once the foundation executives had told Kinsey the most intimate details of their sex lives, they could now be blackmailed if they ever had second thoughts about continuing their support. Kinsey was using the sex histories as a form of control. Just as the people most likely to fall into a scam are people who have perpetrated one themselves, so those most likely

to be controlled by sex are those interested in using sex as a way of controlling others. In this instance, Yerkes and the other scientists were easy pickings. Yerkes and his colleagues entered the trap with their eyes wide open. Kinsey later told a friend that Yerkes, et al., “everywhere made it apparent that this is the study they have been waiting for more than twenty years.”4 According to Jones, Yerkes

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