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| | Commentary Magazine - Dr. Kinsey and the Institute for Sex Research, by Wardell B. Pomeroy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | ...Pomeroy suggests that Kinsey's premature death was at least in part attributable to the loss of financial support following publication of Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, but this is the voice of the disciple speaking, the advocate who continues to believe in the importance of his mentor's unfinished work... |
 | | ...Pomeroy's book exists not only to recount the life of the man he admires but also to expound the proposition that Kinsey belongs with the immortals, and in order to make his case, Pomeroy is obliged to assert that what Kinsey did, i.e., describe and count, was the essence of science... |
 | | ...Pomeroy's book, bordering at times on the worshipful, is testimony to his personal magnetism, his ability to inspire trust, generate intense loyalty, and dominate those around him by the force of his personality -in this, comparisons with Freud are certainly not misplaced... |
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