>>40588600Not ignoring your post, just wrapping up the previous response.
>Kinsey wished to argue that children have a sexuality which is not harmed by being used for adult gratification, and thus he saw adults ‘manipulating’ children to orgasm as synonymous with children’s own authentic and autonomous sexuality.Yeah, Kinsey's take is a bad one, and you don't need to be a psychologist to understand why. Humanity has a long history of coming of age rituals to become a man or transition from girl to woman. Marriage, union between two people, was meant to be the psycho-spiritual transition into sexuality for men (at least). However, it's a cultural thing meant to harness an instinct, so science types looking to advance their regard and repertoire seek to explore the instinct (an ephemeral and previously only really addressed through religious or spiritual lenses) without cultural influence, thinking that their model of it will liberate humanity in some sense, like a work of art liberates the preconceived notions of its viewers. Kinsey took adult sexuality as the baseline for what human sexuality is and therefore assumed it to be good. His Kinsey scale implies this, because it focuses basically on what gets people hard, but says nothing for how people value their 'hardness'. Being sexually attracted to a child should fill a person with disgust in the same way that eating shit would, but because Kinsey found people who got hard over children, he approached it as a healthy (honest) expression of lust and didn't bother investigating their psyches for profound abuse trauma in their histories.
This is why actual science should be conducted slowly. If Kinsey was right, he could have spent decades researching stories of burgeoning sexual development to prove his case. Instead, he zipped right to the end, said he'd figured out sexuality, and inserted his maladaptive approach to sexual expression into the field of psychology.