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...Kinsey was fascinated by the collection. Said he: "I want to study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
...ever going to balance the budget, new sources of revenue must be found, since present sources have just about reached the point of diminishing returns. Corporate taxes are already so high as to inhibit industrial growth; income taxes have reached such a high level that if the U.S. confiscated every penny of individual income over $10,000 a year it would only get $3.5 billion in additional revenue. But each 1% of a sales tax would yield $800 million if imposed at the manufacturer's level and $1.2 billion if put on retail sales. Since a retail tax would...
...present laws dealing with obscenity should be vigorously enforced. Beyond that, there is no place in our society for extralegal efforts to coerce the taste of others, to confine adults to the reading matter deemed suitable for adolescents, or to inhibit the efforts of writers to achieve artistic expression...
...boils down to the fact that civilized man is taught to inhibit many of his aggressive impulses. Of the father & son cases, Psychiatrist Levin says: "In the motor centers of the angry parent there is a struggle. There are excitations which are about to express themselves in an act of aggression. But there also are inhibitions, for the parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress...
...this point, the second string anti-control men start their case. Admitting that wartime controls are inevitable, they argue that Congress can start to enforce them after war begins. To give stand-by Powers to the president, they insist, would inhibit business by constantly threatening it with a sudden price freeze. They also claim that the decision to invoke price controls is too big for one man, and want Congress to do the deciding at the proper time...