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...continuing war between science and religion, the issue last week was sex. From Science's corner, Anthropologist George Peter Murdock of Yale threw out the challenge. Said he: "There is . . . nothing in man's social experience to indicate that the ideal of premarital chastity has any scientific value...
...human societies he had studied, 70% permit "sexual experimentation" before marriage, Professor Murdock told the 37th annual meeting of the American Social Hygiene Association, in Manhattan. Anthropologist Murdock wished more power to "socially controlled premarital experimentation." Said he: "The sexual laxity current among our own youth is admittedly an unlovely phenomenon from an esthetic point of view. I see no grounds, however, for regarding it as socially dangerous. It is probably here to stay, since the principal props of the older morality have disappeared with the advent of contraception and the scientific mastery of venereal infection...
Approved Outlet. Murdock saw five advantages in encouraging the young folks (with "social control") to let their glands be their guides: 1) less guilt, hence less psychoneurosis; 2) an approved outlet for sexual vigor when it is at its height; 3) establishment of normal heterosexual habits; 4) understanding of the role of sex-"Relief from sexual frustration is a very inadequate motive for marriage"; 5) prevention of marriage between sexual incompatibles...
Cabot-Miss Helen M. Cam. History; Louis Hartz '40, Government; Harry Levin '33, English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, English; Alfred S. Romer, Zoology; and Henry Murray '15, lecturer on Clinical Psychology...
Also selected were John E. Mara of Wellesly Hills, Jerry N. Markham of Savannah, Georgia Sam Masarachia of Indianapolis, Indiana, Frank J. Morrison of Jersey City, New Jersey, Harry, B. Morrison of Morristown, New Jersey, and Lloyd Carrol Murdock of Ogden Utah...