Editing Alfred Kinsey (section)

=== Controversy and Moral Disconnection ===
When the ''Kinsey Reports'' were released, they triggered international outrage. Kinsey was accused of undermining American morals, promoting promiscuity, and being unfit to teach.

He did not flinch. His response to every criticism was the same: “These are the facts.” He saw all criticism as '''emotionally irrational and therefore irrelevant'''. He continued his work in isolation, becoming increasingly mistrustful of institutions and unwilling to alter his research methodology to satisfy public concern.

This is a common autistic trait—'''a rigidity of moral orientation''' that is based on principle, not popularity, and which sees compromise as intellectual betrayal.
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