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...severe that many hospitals and gynecologists will have nothing to do with even legitimate cases. In 18 states the woman who seeks an abortion (other than the rare "therapeutic" kind) can be jailed for her part in the crime. Yet the latest findings* of the late Alfred C. Kinsey's Indiana University team of sex researchers-whose sampling is admittedly small and not entirely representative of U.S. womanhood-offer striking statistical clues to the prevalence of the practice...
...women in the Kinsey survey, one out of every ten became pregnant either before marriage or after divorce. Almost 18 out of 20 such pregnancies ended in abortion. How and where the women got the abortions was not always clear, but the vast majority (17 out of 20) told interviewers that they had it done by "a physician." Of 1.044 abortions reported, eleven out of 20 were obtained by married women...
Pealing for all it's worth, tabloid Grit over the years has given a big play to pictures and success stories of persons grittily overcoming handicaps (sample subject: deaf children learning to talk), decorously avoided touchy topics from the Kinsey report to the Confidential trial. Such a dry-cleaned view of the news stems from Publisher Lamade's German-born father, Dietrick, who with two others bought the tiny, two-year-old paper in 1884 for $1,000, and until his death in 1938 exhorted his staff to "avoid showing the wrong side of things or making people...
Passionate Summer (Marceau; Kingsley International) is the kind of plain-brown-wrapper movie that could have been authored by an unlikely collaboration of Henry Miller, in his heyday, and the late Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey in his. What happens when a carefree, handsome studhorse of a man strolls into the lives of three sex-starved females who run an isolated goat farm in the French Alps? Going far beyond love, or even mere lust, Passionate Summer presents something of a heterosexual explosion...
...calls in both husband and wife for detailed interviews. He finds that a wife who feels insecure about her husband's love or overshadowed by his having had a previously successful marriage with children, is likely to have an insecure fetus. Often such couples rate high on the Kinsey scale of sexual activity: Dr. Javert holds that orgasm predisposes to uterine contractions and premature labor, therefore forbids intercourse during pregnancy. Granting that much remains co be learned about the workings of sex hormones, he is dead set against using stilbestrol, a synthetic drug on which many obstetricians rely heavily...