The Cornell rape case and the roots of American sex education
A sexual assault case involving Cornell students is being recast as an indictment of university sex education itself — bad news for Cornell, for Indiana University's Kinsey Institute, and for the broader academic establishment now facing blame for the culture its courses helped build.
- The argument sidesteps guilt or innocence in the case and focuses instead on the accuser's own texts, where she described the encounter as part of a changing, more open sexuality — language treated as inherited from the classroom, not invented by her.
- Blame is placed on the founders of modern sex education: Alfred Kinsey, whose institute still operates at Indiana University, and Mary Calderone, a Planned Parenthood founder who went on to build the group that still shapes school sex-ed curricula from kindergarten up.
- Kinsey's research is attacked as built on sex offenders, prostitutes and data on children that could only have come from abuse, yet it remains cited in psychology textbooks and survives in the still-used Kinsey scale.
- Both figures are linked back to occultist Aleister Crowley and his circle, including rocket scientist and Jet Propulsion Laboratory co-founder Jack Parsons, framing today's curricula as doctrines laundered from cult circles into federally funded institutions.
- The closing charge lands on parents: funding these universities while ignoring what is taught there makes families complicit when students treat permissiveness as progress.
Outlook: Expect this framing to fuel more pressure on university gender and sexuality programs as the Cornell case moves forward and more facts become public.