Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that though laymen book reviewers acclaim the study, experts find it unacceptable. This is quite erroneous, as the inquiry has been at all times guided by scores of experts who stand in back of it. ... By the . . . realistic standard of what has been achieved before in the study of sex, Professor Kinsey's work is clearly a tremendous advance, and warrants wide attention and respect...
...beautiful, black-haired daughter of an Irish mother and a British millionaire, Leonora Carrington was born 31 years ago in Lancashire. Brought up in European convents and finishing schools, she dutifully learned ladylike deportment. But she painted in a very unladylike manner: her first surrealist pictures were heavy with sex and horror. In 1940 she suddenly went mad, spent agonizing months in a Spanish asylum...
Human Growth calls a Fallopian tube a Fallopian tube. Through this film and question-&-answer periods stimulated by it, Oregon hoped to take sex education out from behind the barn and into the class room...
Margin for Error. Oregon's high venereal disease rate in the '30s had worried Dr. E. C. Brown, a VD specialist who thought that more knowledge would mean less disease. Before his death in 1939, Brown gave $500,000 to the University of Oregon for sex education. Six years later, the state legislature made the subject compulsory in junior and senior high schools. Oregon first tried pamphlets, lectures and then lantern slides, but found too much margin for error and embarrassment on the part of teachers. In 1946 Professor Lester F. Beck, a University of Oregon psychologist, worked...
...Decent. The 20-minute film opens in the living room of a respectable, middle-class family. Opening his textbook to the picture of a naked Indian, the boy asks his father why savages didn't wear clothes while civilized people do. That starts a family bull-session about sex, to make the audience realize that sex can be casually and decently discussed...