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Word: kinseys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devotions by a girl named Audrey, and it is easy to see why Lord Rutherford did not like the erotic bits. She and Miles live it up at meetings of the Holborn Labour Party, and their sex life is described in the fiat and dogged style of Dr. Kinsey, but without the rich subject matter. It is certainly short of Ovid. Novelist Snow's introduction suggests that he put in the erotic bits to disprove the notion that scientists are "unemotional, naive, asexual." Data inconclusive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sin Among the Scientists | 1/5/1959 | See Source »

...feature on Widener Library and the books that are kept in the "Cage." The article stated, "Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts." [italics added...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BIRTH CONTROL | 12/10/1958 | See Source »

...library is not particularly anxious to assign literature to the Cage. Any book published in the United States or readily available here will be placed in the regular stacks regardless of its content, with the exception of certain medical works like the Kinsey report and birth control propaganda, which are regulated by Massachusetts. All materials which cannot be legally imported, however, must be placed in the Cage. This of course includes the classic cases of American censorship: the well-known, often cited, little-read works of Henry Miller, and the unabridged versions of D. H. Lawrence's more torrid works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 'X' Cage of Widener Library | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

...clinics, kept it in effect until 1953). Thus far, Married Love has sold more than 1,000,000 copies in a dozen languages. And sexology has marched far beyond the outposts of Marie Stopes. In later years she was more often shocked than shocking. When the late Alfred C. Kinsey brought out his "female volume" (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953), Dr. Stopes protested: "It shames American womanhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Early Crusader | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...mostly in the days before antibiotics). In every case he tried to get the referring doctor to state in writing that the woman's health would be jeopardized by continuation of the pregnancy. Since Dr. Timanus performed almost five times as many abortions as turned up in the Kinsey study, his analysis may have a wider application...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Abortion in the U.S. | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

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