Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething with excitement. For Miss Jaffray has publicized her sex's textile troubles so completely that the Federal Trade Commission has just issued a set of rules causing headaches to everyone in the rayon business...
...Barren Leaves (1925). he announced that it is not the fools of this world who turn mystics. In Point Counter Point (1928), which took a thinly-disguised D. H. Lawrence for its hero. Huxley attacked scientific Utopias, embraced a Lawrentian humanism, with a dash more intellect, a dash less sex. In Brave New World (1932) he knocked Utopia down for another count of ten. The hero of Eyeless in Gaza (TIME, July 13. 1936) turned out to be a thoroughgoing pacifist, with a philosophy combining features of Yogi, Buddhism, other Oriental mysteries. After this last novel, it looked...
...themselves both ovaries and testes-sole and essential criteria of femininity or masculinity. All others whom he has seen in his 40 years as urological surgeon, or has read about, have been pseudo-hermaphrodites. These exhibit a most amazing variety of genital abnormalities. But on the testimony of their sex glands, no matter how rudimentary those glands might be. Dr. Young classifies them as male or female. Statistics, he notes, "indicate that pseudohermaphroditism occurs once in 1,000 persons...
...Sex. "A lap behind'' the times, Oxonians still have the outlook toward sex of the post-War period, when ''intercourse was fashionable" and not taken seriously. Briant estimates 20% of undergraduettes (Oxonian for coeds) and 30% of undergraduates have sex experiences at the university. A popular sport of undergraduates is to arrange a petting ±party in their digs, lay in a supply of strong drink "to which the girls are not likely to be accustomed." dim the lights. . . . For "furtive immorality" Muckraker Briant blames the Puritan views of proctors. One signpost of progress: "Homosexuality...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...