Word: orgasms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minute, triples. As a result of this over-breathing, the body loses carbon dioxide too rapidly. This may explain the occasional rigidity of the arm and leg muscles -previously noted by Sexologist Alfred Kinsey (TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). ¶ The increases in heart and breathing rates up to orgasm and the gradual decline afterward are remarkably closely synchronized in the partners. ¶ Electrocardiograms show a surprisingly large number of abnormal and skipped heartbeats, especially at orgasm. These aberrations were not repeated when the same individuals later engaged in strenuous exercise, such as running...
...York Hospital, compared 100 women with cancer of the cervix and 100 with cancer not involving the reproductive system. They found that sexual adjustment among the cervix cancer victims had been poor long before they developed the disease: they had had less intercourse than the others and rarely enjoyed orgasm. In many cases there was actual aversion for the sexual act, and their marriages had been troubled, as indicated by a much higher rate of divorce, desertion or separation. Their cancer, the doctors suggest, might have been caused by physiological changes which occur in the cervix during emotional stress...
...scientific research into human sexuality is more difficult than among Kinsey's first subjects, the gall wasps, he said, "since sex is some thing that people do only in a bedroom." He criticized Kinsey's attempt to express human sex life in statistics showing the frequency of orgasm. "Is orgasm the goal of life? There is some importance, after all, in reproduction of the species...
Like most painters of his school, Mathieu is his own worst advocate. He says he has "no interest in nature," and maintains that his art is what he calls "an orgasm of uncontrolled expression." But whether he chooses to admit the fact or not, Mathieu's paintings are as elaborately controlled as a professional golfer's game. Moreover they do reflect the real world around him, especially the technologically molded world of speed, smoke, glare, and vast perspectives...
...Marriage, by a highly respectable Dutch physician, Theodoor H. Van de Velde, who spoke of sex with great candor but also with an almost romantic reverence No single event did more for open discussion of sex than the Kinsey report, which got such matters as homosexuality, masturbation, coitus and orgasm into most papers and family magazines...