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What the hell was Dr. Kinsey
really doing, hanging around Times Square, asking men to tell him about their
sex lives, getting them to drop their drawers and measure their cocks for
science? He told Herbert, "I'll tell you what, Mr. Huncke. You can help me
greatly if you'd introduce me to some of your friends, so l can interview them
as well. In fact, I'll give you two dollars for every subject you can bring me."
Herbert jumped at the
chance. "I think I can help you, Dr. Kinsey. Why don't you come back to
the Square some evening and I'll introduce you to some good people I know."
Burroughs and Kinsey -
and on occasion, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and his wife, Edie Parker, Burroughs'
wife Joan Adams, among others – would get together at one of several popular
buckets-of-blood around the Square. Such dives as Gilroy's and The Angler. The
good doctor Kinsey would remind his new friends of his study, and the Beats,
having put on a glow, allowed that they were happy to "compile data."
It's interesting to
speculate whether Kinsey's "facts," are weighted by the contacts
Herbert Huncke provided him, the street hustlers, the excitable weekend queens
confessing their transgressions.
