Word: self-control
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...Lynda Austin, an Atlanta geriatrics consultant: "When a family discovers the problem, it's often the impetus for institutionalization." Victims devise homemade solutions instead -- menstrual pads, rags and tissues in underwear or rubber balloons over the penis. The stigma for all is intense. From early childhood a sense of self-control is deeply connected to successful toilet training, notes Psychologist Ronald Rozensky of Illinois' Evanston Hospital. "Losing that control as adults sets up a downward spiral of helplessness, shame, guilt and withdrawal...
Fanny had a modicum of common sense. "I will entreat you to hurry our wedding day," she wrote. But when her family finally approved the match, Kingsley had a new idea. "I wish to shew you & my God that I have gained purity & self-control . . . and therefore when we are married, will you consent to remain for the first month in my arms a virgin bride, a sister only?" Well, somehow they managed to conceive four children and live together in Victorian happiness for more than 30 years...
...narrative continues to suffer unexplained breakdowns, lapsing into semi-poetic word association, noises, and archaic spelling. These breakdowns jar all the more powerfully as they occur within passages of complete textual self-control. They undermine the text's tacit claim of logic leaving a wasteland devoid of any structure, any shelter...
...goaded into attempting intercourse with a woman, then ordered to stop at the last minute. One analyst dismissed a woman from treatment for refusing to marry the father of her unborn child; another ordered a male patient to refrain from sex for a year as a means of learning self-control...
...only does Brandt give us a comprehensive and entertaining history of venereal disease in America but he draws valuable comparisons between the hygiene gospel" and current fears of AIDS and herpes. He says, "Contraction of a venereal disease represented a failure of self-control, a central tenet of progressive ideology." This is the same message being offered by the popular media today. Time magazine calls herpes the new scarlet letter and herpes sufferers "unusually dishonest and unusually promiscuous. Professor Brandt shows that even today, we are still getting the same mixed messages about sexuality be a libertine but take...