Croatian sex-ed critic Karolina Vidovic Kristo recently spoke in Toronto.
Karolina Vidovic Kristo, a respected Croatian television journalist employed with the state public broadcaster, was recently in Canada to talk about how she led the fight against sex education in her country by exposing Alfred Kinsey, his research, and its aftermath.
Kinsey was an American biologist, and later sexologist, who founded The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. His published research on human sexuality sparked controversy in the ‘40s and ‘50s, but influenced sexual education in America and abroad
Vidovic Kristo, 40, was the producer, editor, and investigative journalist of an international Croatian program on HRT (Slika Hrvatske/ Picture of Croatia), promoting Croatia abroad, and keeping the diaspora connected to their homeland. In 2012 the Croatian Government introduced a revised sex-ed curriculum. “I had three kids in primary school, and when I attended parents council meetings, 90 per cent were against sex-ed, and 10 percent were for it,” she recently told a Toronto audience. “However, all of these parents could neither explain nor defend their positions. I was compelled to research sex-ed myself.”
As the debate over sex-education was heating up in Croatia, a country where 86 per cent of the population identifies as Catholic, Kristo found herself watching The Kinsey Syndrome and Kinsey’s Pedophiles, documentaries exposing the horrors of Kinsey’s research. These horrors include Kinsey paying pedophiles to rape children and time it with a stop watch. “As I watched the production, I felt sick and disgusted. I felt awful. I thought: people don’t know what has happened; they need to know.”
At that moment she decided to do a show on sexual education and expose Kinsey’s research. In December 2012, HRT aired her program, which included excerpts from the film Kinsey’s Pedophiles by Timothy Tate, a British filmmaker, and the public reaction was immediate. “My phone was ringing off the hook. Parents who were once divided on the sex-ed issue, were now uniting against sex-ed, simply because they were informed of Kinsey’s crimes.”
The following morning, the TV network board publicly apologized for the show, refuted its contents, and then indicated that Kristo would be reprimanded for misusing her position and being unprofessional. She says the state, the network, everyone official was against her.
“However, people were supporting me. For the first time, the Croatian people came together. Croats – no matter what nationality, religion, ideology – everyone was on the same side of protecting children. This is because they got to know the truth and stood out to protect those who cannot protect themselves – the children.”
Soon, Kristo found friends and allies across the globe, and across faiths: American Kinsey expert Judith Reisman, who has published several books, papers, and movies on Kinsey’s pedophilic and fraudulent research, and Timothy Tate, an agnostic and left-leaning liberal, who produced and directed Kinsey’s Pedophiles. Both came to Croatia shortly after Kristo’s program was aired to give her support, to discuss Kinsey and sex-education, and to comment on Kinsey’s research.
According to Kinsey’s books and the research he published, and according to the statements of his assistants in various interviews, not only was Kinsey’s research flawed, it was also criminal. Child sexuality research data was collected from the personal logs of several pedophiles, one in particular who kept detailed diaries of over 800 sexual encounters with children, and even with babies as young as two months old.
Among his now-refuted statistical claims, Kinsey said he discovered 10-36 per cent of men are homosexual; homosexuality, incest, rape, pedophilia, and even bestiality are normal, and 95 per cent of men engage in these behaviours; 40 per cent of married women have affairs; 25 per cent of married women had abortions. This abortion statistic is said to have been a catalyst in convincing lawmakers to legalize abortion.
According to the film The Kinsey Syndrome, Kinsey convinced U.S. lawmakers to lower the age of consent, and reduce sentencing for sex crimes, going state by state to achieve this objective.
In her book Kinsey: Crimes and Consequence, Reisman explains how since the ‘60s The Kinsey Institute was determined to incorporate Kinsey’s philosophy into sex-education material for children. They also partnered with Planned Parenthood to achieve this objective. Reisman exposes how it was Kinsey’s research which claimed that children are sexual and potentially orgasmic from birth, and are unharmed by incest, adult/child sex, and often benefit from such activity.
As a result of her expose on national television, Kristo was nominated for “Homophobe of the Year 2013” by Zagreb Pride, the organizers of the annual pride parade in Croatia’s capital. Zagreb Pride emphasized that they nominated her because she uncovered that sex-ed is based on pedophilia. In response, Kristo wrote an open letter demanding to know why an organization, which promotes itself as a gay-organization, felt attacked if somebody researches pedophilia as a crime? After that letter, they stopped attacking her, and this past September, she won a court settlement for her defamation suit against Zagreb Pride.
Kristo has also received death threats against herself and her children, yet she continues her mission to expose Kinsey’s crimes. “How could people know about Kinsey? The only country where this truth was aired on public television was Croatia. There is no mass-media who talks about Kinsey in this spotlight. No one talks about Kinsey. So how would people know?”
Kristo said, “modern sex ed began in the sixties. It was based on Alfred Kinsey’s model of human sexuality. Everyone’s sexual education in the past 50 years came right from the Kinsey Institute. How can we teach sexual education? His research was based on crimes and lies … his so-called science, including sex-ed at schools which is based on Kinsey, should therefore be dismissed immediately.”
In April 2014, the United Nations granted The Kinsey Institute ECOSOC accreditation. In response, Reisman, Tate, and Kristo, among others, launched a campaign from Croatia called “Don’t Touch the Children” and one of their first items on the agenda is asking the UN to re-examine the Kinsey Institute accreditation. A letter was sent to each head of UN member states explaining the nature of the Kinsey research. Not one member state acknowledged the letter.
Yet in the face of global apathy, her precarious employment situation, and death threats, Kristo soldiers on, including talking to community groups in the Greater Toronto Area in late October.
