Editing Judith Reisman (section)

==Advocating for children==
Writing for [[AlterNet]], blogger [[Max Blumenthal]] wrote about how Reisman's daughter's molestation set Reisman on the path of researching Kinsey's activities. Purportedly, an investigation indicated a link between the assailant's viewing of a pornographic magazine and the 13-year-old girl's assault (noted in Reisman's memorial page).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home |url=https://www.thereismaninstitute.org/home |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Dr. Judith Reisman |language=en-US}}</ref> Following the [[sexual assault]], the accused boy and his family slipped out of the country, while her daughter lapsed into a deep [[Depression (mood)|depression]]. Fifteen years later, the daughter died from a [[brain aneurysm]], which Reisman suspected was linked to the earlier trauma.<ref name=alternet>{{cite news|last=Blumenthal|first=Max|author-link=Max Blumenthal|url=http://www.alternet.org/election04/20744/?page=entire |title=Her Kinsey Obsession|date=December 15, 2004|work=[[AlterNet]] |access-date=November 17, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325101557/http://www.alternet.org/election04/20744/?page=entire |archive-date=March 25, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> 

Reisman was one of the founding members of the Reisman Institute, and served as its president until 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.thereismaninstitute.org/about-us |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=Dr. Judith Reisman |language=en-US}}</ref> She delivered talks on child advocacy, and was the director of the Liberty Child Protection Center. She received the "Protector of Children" award from Citizens for Families in 2005, as well as the "Save Our Children Scientist Of The Year For 1993" from the Save Our Children National Alliance.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Judith Reisman, Ph.D. - About Dr. Reisman: Vitae |url=http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/2011/06/vitae.html |access-date=2023-09-27 |website=www.drjudithreisman.com}}</ref> She was nominated by the Inspector General for the Department of Defense to be part of the panel reviewing sexual misconduct for the US Air Force Academy in 2003.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Schmitz Nomination |url=http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/schmitz%20nonimation.pdf |access-date=September 26, 2023 |website=drjudithreisman.com}}</ref>

===Children in the Kinsey reports===
Over the following years, her accusations against Kinsey became increasingly serious. She said that he was a fraud who had employed and relied on [[pedophile]]s for his research,<ref name="Trento">{{cite book |last=Trento |first=Susan |url=https://archive.org/details/powerhouserobert00tren |title=The Power House |publisher=[[St. Martin's Press]] |year=1992 |isbn=978-0-312-08319-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/powerhouserobert00tren/page/n214 193]–200 |url-access=registration}} Relevant excerpt: [http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/gray_memo.doc] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124054942/http://drjudithreisman.com/archives/gray_memo.doc|date=2010-11-24}}</ref> and claimed that Kinsey himself had sexually abused children. This allegation drew a response from Kinsey biographer James H. Jones, who wrote that unless new evidence to the contrary becomes available, Reisman's claims that Kinsey may have witnessed or personally participated in child molestation under the guise of scientific research should be considered groundless.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/sfeature/sf_forum_0215.html |title=American Experience - Kinsey - Online Forum - Questions and Answers: Day 2 |date=15 February 2005 |work=[[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] |access-date=2 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110410102632/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/kinsey/sfeature/sf_forum_0215.html |archive-date=2011-04-10 |url-status=live }} Quoting Jones: "For more than a decade rumors and accusations have circulated that Kinsey was a pedophile. I have not seen any credible evidence to support these rumors and accusations, and I do not believe that such evidence exists. Moreover, reliable people who knew Kinsey's sexual history have testified that he was not a pedophile. I believe them."</ref> 

Due to such ideas, she was "ostracized by mainstream academia".<ref name=alternet/><ref>"A pariah among her peers, Dr. Reisman is at the forefront of freedom fighters storming the gates of moral and sexual degeneracy to liberate those enslaved to the deceitfulness of sexual sin." http://www.drjudithreisman.com/archives/brotherwatch.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101124055103/http://drjudithreisman.com/archives/brotherwatch.pdf |date=2010-11-24 }}</ref>

Prior to the release of the 2004 film ''[[Kinsey (film)|Kinsey]],'' Reisman and [[Laura Schlessinger]] attempted to place an advertisement "alleging Kinsey was a pervert and a pedophile".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alternet.org/movies/20692/?page=entire |title=The Joy of Sexology |first=Christina |last=Larson |date=8 December 2004 |work=[[AlterNet]] |access-date=1 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706021220/http://www.alternet.org/movies/20692/?page=entire |archive-date=2010-07-06 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] has described Reisman as a "conspiracy theorist" and a promoter of "sexual pseudoscience" in regard to her views on Kinsey.<ref name="SPLC"/> [[John Bancroft (sexologist)|John Bancroft]] stated:
<blockquote>Reisman's campaign against Kinsey was described by Morton Hunt (1999) as follows: "To use smear tactics, methods of intimidation, and political trickery to achieve what one considers a moral end, is to live by the principle that the end justifies the means." (P. 209.)<ref name="Bancroft2004">{{cite journal|last1=Bancroft|first1=John|year=2004|title=Alfred C. Kinsey and the politics of sex research |journal=Annual Review of Sex Research|volume=15|issue=1|pages=1–39|doi=10.1080/10532528.2004.10559818 |issn=1053-2528|quote=Roman Catholic Archbishop Paul Schulte (from the diocese in which Kinsey lived) commented, "There can be no valid objections to a scientific investigation of sexual behavior, that would assist lawmakers, educators, clergymen, physicians and other professional people ... but Dr. Kinsey has degraded science. Instead of circulating the findings among those competent to weigh and apply them to the betterment of mankind, he publicizes them like a cheap charlatan." This theme, which has recurred before and since, focuses on the importance of keeping information about sex away from ordinary folk.|citeseerx=10.1.1.731.2332|pmid=16913278}} (from page 3)</ref></blockquote>

Diederik F. Janssen has reviewed her book ''Sexual Sabotage: How One Mad Scientist Unleashed a Plague of Corruption and Contagion on America'' from a [[postmodern]] perspective.<ref name="Janssen2012" /> First, the observer says of her book: "This takes the unseemly shape of a paranoid sermon on American decency held together by acerbic ad hominems, a tapestry of slippery slope arguments, a string of unwholesome linkages ('Nazi serial pedophiles'), and a litany of medieval, Victorian, and McCarthyian diagnostics ('plague,' 'sexual psychopaths,' 'sexual deviancy,' 'perversions')."<ref name="Janssen2012">{{cite journal|last1=Janssen|first1=Diederik F.|title=Sexual Sabotage: How One Mad Scientist Unleashed a Plague of Corruption and Contagion on America|journal=Archives of Sexual Behavior|volume=41|issue=5|year=2012|pages=1315–1318|issn=0004-0002|doi=10.1007/s10508-012-9990-y|s2cid=146167898}}</ref> Then he considers that Reisman plays truth games precisely because Kinsey had invited sexologists to play truth games.<ref name="Janssen2012" /> Janssen sees her fault in "exactly the scientific cover-up of moral dilemmas she accuses her nemesis Kinsey of. To maximize this argument: what needs criticism, ''on behalf of children,'' is scientism, not moralism."<ref name="Janssen2012" /> He notes that if [[taboo]]s need "scientific (medical) approval, their days may be numbered."<ref name="Janssen2012" />

Reisman lambasted [[SCOTUS]] for trusting Kinsey's legacy ([[sexology]]): "[...] on June 26, 2003, the U.S. Supreme Court enshrined Kinsey's fraudulent data as the revolutionary moral law of our land [...] a duplicitous sexual deviant was the primary source used by the United States Supreme Court as their 'science' authority in Lawrence v. Texas."<ref name="Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest 2004">{{cite web | title=Supreme Court Sodomy Decision Based on Junk Science | website=Gay & Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest | date=18 July 2004 | url=http://www.glapn.org/sodomylaws/usa/wackos/wacko028.htm | access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref><ref name="humaneventsonline.com 2006">{{cite journal | first=Judith | last=Reisman | title=Sodomy Decision Based On Fraudulent 'Science' | journal=Human Events | date=August 2003 | url=http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=1565 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060215005909/http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=1565 | archive-date=15 February 2006 | url-status=dead | access-date=16 September 2021 | issn=0018-7194}}</ref><ref name="Giami Levinson 2021 p. 87">{{cite book | last1=Paturel | first1=Alexandre | last2=Mottier | first2=Véronique | last3=Kraus | first3=Cynthia | editor-last1=Giami | editor-first1=Alain | editor-last2=Levinson | editor-first2=Sharman | title=Histories of Sexology: Between Science and Politics | publisher=Springer International Publishing | series=Global Queer Politics | year=2021 | isbn=978-3-030-65813-7 | chapter=5. Saving Sexual Science: Kinsey and American Religious-Conservative Politics | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XSs4EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 | access-date=1 August 2023 | page=87}}</ref>

About [[gay marriage]] she wrote to SCOTUS: "this Court should not permit the institution of marriage to become the latest victim of the Kinseyan model of American society."<ref name="MSNBC.com 2015">{{cite web | first=Irin | last=Carmon | title=Here are the wildest arguments against marriage equality | website=MSNBC.com | date=24 April 2015 | url=https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/the-wildest-arguments-against-marriage-equality-msna580466 | access-date=16 September 2021}} Cf. the primary source {{cite web|url=https://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/14-556-14-562-14-571-14-574_-bsac_-Dr.-Judith-Reisman-and-Liberty-Center-for-Child-Protection.pdf|title=BRIEF OF AMICI CURIAE DR. JUDITH REISMAN AND LIBERTY CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION IN SUPPORT OF RESPONDENTS|date=3 April 2015}}</ref> She also wrote to the Court that mainstream sexology is "an ideology built upon the sexual abuse of infants and children, and the libeling of the 'Greatest Generation'."<ref name="MSNBC.com 2015"/> Her opponents, however, make the argument that, [[Pedophilia|pedophiles]] had the most to lose (not win) from the sexual revolution.<ref name="Hekma Giami 2014 p. 264">{{cite book | last=Paternotte | first=David | editor-last1=Hekma | editor-first1=Gert | editor-last2=Giami | editor-first2=Alain | title=Sexual Revolutions | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK | series=Genders and Sexualities in History | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-137-32146-6 | chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nOEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA264 | page=264 | chapter=16. Pedophilia, Homosexuality and Gay and Lesbian Activism}}</ref>

{{blockquote|Selective quotation, exaggeration, and outright lies are time-honored tactics of the Right. Judith Reisman has long circulated the calumny that Alfred Kinsey conducted sexual experiments on infants at his institute; she offers no substantiation.<ref name="Levine Elders 2003 p. ">{{cite book | last1=Levine | first1=Judith | last2=Elders | first2=Joycelyn M. | title=Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex | publisher=Thunder's Mouth Press | year=2003 | isbn=978-1-56025-516-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1hu8c_wDwvoC | access-date=6 March 2022 | page=233 | quote=Selective quotation, exaggeration, and outright lies are time-honored tactics of the Right. Judith Reisman has long circulated the calumny that Alfred Kinsey conducted sexual experiments on infants at his institute; she offers no substantiation.}}</ref>|Judith Levine}}

The [[FBI]] could not find any felony committed by Kinsey.<ref name="The MIT Press 2019">{{cite book | title=Scientists Under Surveillance | date=12 March 2019 | publisher=MIT Press | isbn=9780262536882 | url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/scientists-under-surveillance | access-date=6 March 2022 | quote=And the Bureau's relationship with Alfred Kinsey, the author of ''The Kinsey Report,'' was mutually beneficial, with each drawing on the other's data. | page=back cover}}</ref><ref name="Brown Lipton Morisy Aftergood 2019 p. ">{{cite book | editor-last1=Brown | editor-first1=Jpat | editor-last2=Lipton | editor-first2=B.C.D. | editor-last3=Morisy | editor-first3=Michael | last1=Aftergood | first1=Steven | last2=Robinson | first2=Walter V. | title=Scientists Under Surveillance: The FBI Files | publisher=MIT Press | year=2019 | isbn=978-0-262-53688-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLtNEAAAQBAJ | page=241}} &mdash; page 241, the only page having the scholarly analysis of Kinsey's file, mentions no felony committed by Kinsey c.s.</ref> In the years following the death of Kinsey, as well as Senator McCarthy and his anticommunist crusade with it, Kinsey's research only grew in public esteem and became increasingly accepted in academia in the years after his death, during which he was established as the American father of sexology.<ref name="Allyn 2016 p. 17">{{cite book | last=Allyn | first=David | title=Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History | publisher=Taylor & Francis | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-134-93473-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eP42DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA17 | page=17}}</ref>

Reisman's book ''Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences; The Red Queen and the Grand Scheme'' was called "wildly irresponsible and baffling book... Nonetheless, it contains some interesting information about the reaction to Kinsey."<ref name="Gilbert 2005 p. 236">{{cite book | last=Gilbert | first=James | title=Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s | publisher=University of Chicago Press | year=2005 | isbn=978-0-226-29324-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ew6IY0Meu0C&pg=PA236 | access-date=1 August 2023 | page=236}}</ref>

===Images of children, crime and violence===

In 1983, the [[United States Department of Justice]] (DOJ) was headed by [[social conservatives]], including [[Alfred S. Regnery]] in the [[Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention]] (OJJDP). Reisman had given a talk on a [[Washington, D.C.]] radio program and on [[CNN]]'s ''[[Crossfire (U.S. TV program)|Crossfire]]'' about the "connections between [[sex education]], sex educators, and the [[pornography industry]]" which was heard by a member of the DOJ, and Reisman was asked to discuss her views in person, which "struck a common chord ... especially those opposed to sex education in the schools." She was then invited to apply for a [[Grant (money)|grant]], which was approved without competition for the amount of $798,531 (though later reduced to $734,371), to undertake a "study at [[American University]] to determine whether [[Playboy]], [[Hustler (magazine)|Hustler]] and other more explicit materials are linked to violence by juveniles."<ref name=Trento /><ref name="palmbeach-1984">{{cite news |title=Memo: $798,000 Porn Study Could Be Made for $60,000 |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |date=5 March 1984 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VwItAAAAIBAJ&pg=1220,5268385 |access-date=16 November 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref name=Margasak>{{cite news |title=New study will determine how adult magazines affect children |author=Larry Margasak ([[Associated Press]]) |newspaper=[[The Gettysburg Times]] |date=3 May 1985 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w5oyAAAAIBAJ&pg=4320,5493446 |access-date=16 November 2010}}</ref> The allocation came under criticism as the grant was approved despite a staff memo from Pamela Swain, a director of research, evaluation and program development, in which she claimed that the study could be accomplished for $60,000.<ref name="palmbeach-1984"/>

By 1986, Reisman concluded her investigation of "372 issues of ''Playboy'', 184 issues of ''[[Penthouse magazine|Penthouse]]'' and 125 issues of ''Hustler''" that found "2,016 cartoons that included children apparently under the age of 17 and 3,988 other pictures, photographs and drawings that depict [[infant]]s or [[youths]]," the details of which were collected into "a three-volume report running to 1,600 pages" titled "Images of Children, Crime and Violence in Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler."<ref name=nude>{{cite news |title=Nude Women, Mud Pies, And The Deficit |first=James J. |last=Kilpatrick |newspaper=[[The Blade (Toledo)|The Blade]] |date= 26 September 1986 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VRNPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3253,4342177 |access-date=16 November 2010|author-link=James J. Kilpatrick }}</ref> The report drew contemporary criticism in regards to its cost and quality.<ref name=Margasak /><ref>{{cite news |title='Kiddie porn' study called waste of money |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=[[The Telegraph (Nashua)|Nashua Telegraph]] |date=8 May 1985 |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QJorAAAAIBAJ&pg=3737,1555440 |access-date=16 November 2010}}</ref> [[Sex crime]] researcher [[Avedon Carol]] commented that the report was a "scientific disaster, riddled with researcher bias and baseless assumptions."<ref name="Carol">Carol, Avedon 1994, Nudes, Prudes and Attitudes: Pornography and Censorship, New Clarion Press, Gloucester. p. 116. [https://books.google.com/books?id=k6iLAAAAIAAJ&q=scientific+disaster][https://books.google.com/books?id=k6iLAAAAIAAJ&q=baseless+assumptions]</ref> The American University (AU), where Reisman's study had been academically based, refused to publish the completed work, citing concerns by an independent academic auditor. [[Criminologist]] Robert Figlio of the [[University of Pennsylvania]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/julyaugust08/obit.html#link_2 |title=Footnotes--July–August 2008 Issue--Obituaries |date=July–August 2008 |work=ASA Footnotes |publisher=[[American Sociological Association]] |access-date=28 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205131005/http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/julyaugust08/obit.html#link_2 |archive-date=2010-12-05 |url-status=live }}</ref> stated "The term child used in the aggregate sense in this report is so inclusive and general as to be meaningless."<ref name=nude /> Loretta Haroian stated about the report "vigilantism: paranoid, pseudoscientific hyperbole with a thinly veiled, hidden agenda."<ref name="SPLC"/>

Author Susan Trento chronicled additional complexities surrounding the episode. Initially, Reisman was targeted by some as a proxy to attack Regnery. The nature of Reisman's grant work and the concurrent [[Attorney General's Commission on Pornography]], which would author the [[Meese Report]] in 1986, caused anxiety in the pornography industry. Fears began to come to fruition when [[7-Eleven]] stores stopped selling ''Playboy'' and ''Penthouse'', in part citing Reisman's work. Trento writes that the public relations firm headed by [[Robert Keith Gray]] was hired by ''Playboy'' and ''Penthouse'' "to discredit Meese's Pornography Commission" specifically as well as others that threatened their business, presumably including Reisman.<ref name=Trento /><ref>{{cite book |title=Mr Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream |last=Watts |first=Steven |year=2009 |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley]] |isbn=978-0-470-52167-0 |page=375 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m5b_eM3twmEC&pg=PA375 |access-date=21 November 2010}}</ref> "Whatever the merits of her research," Trento wrote, when support from the OJJDP was needed most, its leadership backed away from Reisman leaving her project to fail and leaving Reisman feeling "bitter" and "helpless" after "spending years developing an expertise and doing what she thought was an excellent job in the [[public interest]]."<ref name=Trento />

In 2017, Reisman became involved in a group called Investigating YouTube.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://investigatingyoutube.com/ |title=Home &#124; Investigating YouTube |access-date=2017-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170803211513/http://investigatingyoutube.com/ |archive-date=2017-08-03 |url-status=live }}</ref> Specifically, she voiced her concern about the disturbing content in [[YouTube]] videos targeted at children, [[Elsagate|involving suggestive imagery and violence while using popular children's figures]] such as ''Frozen'''s [[Elsa (Disney)|Elsa]] and [[Spider-Man]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.dropbox.com/s/0i7rnq1hvtshu4e/My%20Movie%201.mp4?dl=0 |title = Dropbox - Link not found}}</ref>

===Sources of child sexual abuse===
When ''Playboy'' and ''Penthouse'' printed [[nude photo]]s of [[Madonna]] in 1985, Reisman warned that because of the entertainer's idolization by youth, their publication would [[social stigma|destigmatize]] and "encourage voluntary display by youngsters," leading to an increase in [[child pornography]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Expert links nude Madonna, more child pornography |author=Russ Kazal ([[United Press International]]) |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ec5JAAAAIBAJ&pg=1008%2C492180 |newspaper=[[The Modesto Bee]] |date=12 July 1985 |access-date=22 June 2011 }}{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Allegations of homosexual recruitment of children===
Reisman claimed that [[homosexual]]s employ [[Homosexual recruitment|recruitment]] techniques that rival those of the [[United States Marine Corps]].<ref name=whyknow /> Reisman cited "a clear avenue for the recruitment of children" by homosexuals in her public support of [[Oregon Ballot Measure 9 (1992)]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Ex-gay minister backs Oregon Measure 9 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cs0qAAAAIBAJ&pg=2231%2C2212152 |newspaper=[[Moscow-Pullman Daily News]] |date=15 October 1992 |access-date=20 December 2010}}</ref>