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...Masters ventured into detailed sex research after he found that many of his patients had sex problems ranging from frigidity and impotence to premature ejaculation and inability to achieve full mutual satisfaction in orgasm; from latent homosexuality to guilt feelings about masturbation, and worst of all, infertility. Because he believes in the institution of marriage and deeply deplores the frequency of divorce, Masters was convinced that only through understanding of the most basic physiologic processes could many of his patients' agonizing difficulties be resolved. And he was appalled to find that although medical scientists have thoroughly investigated abnormal sexuality...
...Latent Alienation. The report assumes that the campus-rocking Free Speech Movement was an event with a meaning worth discovering. One of its discoveries was that 80% of the students generally agreed with the F.S.M. goals of greater political independence and less impersonal education. About half felt strongly enough to boycott classes, although 50% said they opposed some of the F.S.M. tactics. "The ease with which a majority of students could find, however ephemerally, a commitment and a moral drive in opposing the university administration is evidence of a widespread, if latent, alienation," the report says. Furthermore, the committee found...
...situation in South America is anything but favorable. What you attribute to some priests there may be one of many symptoms of a more widespread disease infecting South America's Christianity. Perhaps in South America many priests "who found celibacy no problem were either emotionally immature or latent homosexuals." But don't imply that this is so everywhere...
...scientific arsenal of democracy. From its halls and laboratories come the knowledge and technique, the brain power and the resources which contribute to our national survival in an era where the laboratories and technicians of our enemies work sleeplessly to out-distance us in the race to harness the latent secrets of nature as tools of their supremacy...
...their vows. At the fourth session of the council, Latin American bishops privately circulated a survey of 1,000 Brazilian priests, indicating that a majority were unhappy about their unmarried state. Another Latin American survey suggested that many priests who found celibacy no problem were either emotionally immature or latent homosexuals...