Word: coitus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...view, while arresting, is often somewhat unsatisfying. "The practice of coitus," declares Jones, "was familiar to me at the ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment...
...Family planning ought to be the result of "thoughtful and prayerful Christian decision.'' The means are largely a matter of "clinical and aesthetic choice." But for Christians some means are unlawful: 1) withholding of one partner from the other without mutual consent; 2) interrupted coitus, precluding the husband's or wife's "full completion of the sexual act"; 3) induced abortion or infanticide. The bishops endorsed artificial insemination only if the husband is the donor...
...Master notes, amyl nitrite is seldom given because it causes too general a dilation of the arteries. Nitroglycerin, on the other hand, is freely prescribed, not only after the onset of an attack but to head one off: "When activities known to precipitate an anginal attack are undertaken-coitus, walking uphill, walking after a meal, walking early in the morning, stepping out into the cold, or walking against the wind-the patient is urged to take nitroglycerin beforehand." This usually averts an attack, or greatly reduces its severity...
...order as newcomers jostled for standing room. Clearly, they had not come to hear the speaker's closing remarks on "Protein Composition of Rat Uterine Luminal Fluid," but to be on hand for the American Physiological Society's next and daring paper: "Physiological Responses During Coitus in the Human...
...considered necessarily sinful when brought about through abstinence or the avoidance of intercourse during fertile periods (assuming that they can be determined). Said a Vatican official ast week: "If the institute's initiative eads to the discovery of another way to avoid childbirth without thwarting the end of coitus, the Vatican will certainly examine it tolerantly...