Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sex & Age. "The true recipe for longevity," said Dr. F. A. E. Crew of University of Edinburgh, president of the zoology section, "is to be born a girl." Dr. Crew found informative reading matter in the British Statistical Review of the Registrar-General. In the tables for 1935 he found that in England and Wales 105.6 boys were born for every 100 girls. Of babies who died in the last three months of pregnancy there were 110 boys to 100 girls. And after birth the mortality rate at all ages was higher for males than for females. Thus although boys...
...great discoveries of modern genetics is that certain hereditary characters are linked to the sex factor. Males manufacture two kinds of spermatozoa, one bearing a y-chromosome, the other an x-chromosome. If a y-chromosome spermatozoon happens to penetrate the female ovum, the get is a boy; if an x-chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect...
...Manhattan, Mayor LaGuardia, father by adoption of a young daughter, burst into a fine Italian rage, summoned his commissioners of police and correction and ordered one to set up a Sex Bureau like Chicago's, the other to do everything possible to keep all sex offenders locked up until their cases could receive a thorough psychological investigation. Roared the impetuous little mayor: "There are many legal loopholes through which these offenders can now escape full punishment for their crimes. But, God help the judge who turns one of these men loose if anything happens afterward...
...organization in every State of a farm-hospital-prison where all cases of constitutional psychopathic states-sex offenders-can be kept for life and forced to earn their own maintenance...
...Castration of every individual on commitment to above institution. It has been shown that short prison sentences, fines, commitment to hospitals for the insane, and even sentence to death, are not feared sufficiently by these persons to cause them to stop their sex-criminal tendencies. But, if they knew that after the first offence they will be castrated, and placed in a working institution for life, they will at least migrate to some country that is more kind and lenient in the treatment of their crimes. There is nothing these criminals fear more than castration (this does not mean simple...