Speaking Biologically

Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey dropped down to Little Rock, Ark. last week to discuss his specialty at the sixth annual conference of neuropsychiatrists. Lecturing on sexual abnormality, he told his psychiatrist audience deviations such as homosexuality are hardly surprising among humans. The reason: they are relatively common among animals. Some of his critics, said Zoologist Kinsey, want to have three "kingdoms" -plant, animal and man, ignoring the biological fact that man is an animal.

Snapped Dr. Franz Alexander, director of Chicago's famed Institute for Psychoanalysis: "Animals don't build churches and schools. There are differences between men and animals greater than the fact that their backbones are similar."

Sexologist Kinsey amiably joined in the applause for Dr. Alexander. There are four approaches to his big subject, said Kinsey -"Statistical, biological, moral and rational" -and he had been speaking only of the biological approach. As for his controversial books: "At no point did we suggest that statistical normality is morally or socially proper. We have never said that what is common should be accepted."

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