Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the story before the Friday CRIMSON has gone to press. And then in the leading editorial, we read that the resists of the questionnaire "would be of importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset." Bravo! But a little later on we read. "If the statistics are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the result would be. . . There must be an explicit promise that none of the statistics will be released for public consumption...
...purpose of this letter is not to defend the particular sex questionnaire, with which I have no connection. I have no idea how much scientific validity and value such an investigation may have. But I do wish to call attention to the rotten attitude of Harvard officialdom toward sex. Why do they blush the minute sex is brought out into the open? Why do they insist on pushing it underground where it becomes filth? Why is the most important of human instincts never mentioned more than superficially in any Harvard courses except abnormal psychology and others similar...
...intrinsic value to psychologists and to university administrators of some such questionnaire as that released to undergraduates last evening. The knowledge which it seeks would be of great importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset...
...amazed, upon attending the Hotel Continental last Friday night, at the almost total lack of "drunks," the desirable distribution in number of both sexes, the ease with which one obtained admission, and the very atmosphere of the affair. Most of the girl colleges of New England were well represented by beautiful maidens, and for once there were more than enough of the fair sex to accommodate every male. In fact, there were so many charming girls, that the practice developed of girls cutting in, a condition which pleased me exceedingly. More than one girl solved the problem of my natural...
...girl just out of school-she's the most easily ruined. But after she's read our magazines she knows sex. She knows life. She's better able to protect herself...