Word: sexe
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When two particularly gruesome sex murders occurred in California in 1949 and 1950, there rose a statewide outcry that all sex offenders should be locked up for life, sterilized or even executed. California decided to go slow on new legislation and find out some facts, e.g.: How common are sex crimes? Who commits them? And why? Last week, after three years of study, a team of researchers at the University of California's Langley Porter Clinic, headed by famed Psychiatrist Karl M. Bowman, turned up some of the answers...
Nobody can estimate how many sex "crimes" are actually committed, the researchers concluded, because most sexual acts which violate California's penal code are done in private by "mutually consenting" adults. Even when the crime is clearer, as in cases involving children, it is often hushed up. But in recorded court cases, the investigators could find no evidence of a great wave of sex crime, or that "sex fiends" were everywhere on the prowl. Serious sex offenses made up one-tenth of all the criminal cases tried in the superior courts. The fact finders considered the commoner misdemeanors (such...
...SECOND SEX (732 pp.)-Simone de Beauvoir-Knopf...
Were Sophocles to croon this chorus (from Antigone*) below the boudoir of Existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, she would very likely fling wide her French window and bomb him with The Second Sex (weight: 2¾ Ibs.). For Sophocles' measures stand for just about everything that Author de Beauvoir considers most hateful in human life. As she sees it, the male's conquest of the earth, the sea etc. is just an analogue of his smug conquest of the little woman...
Many authors of both sexes have bent their pens to the exploration of this subject, but none has bent so nearly double as Author de Beauvoir, or painted the plight of woman on so large a canvas. She begins her book, in time, with a discussion of Eve in the Garden of Eden and carries right on from there through recorded history to the age of Dr. Kinsey. By the time she has finished her biological, psychoanalytical and historical-materialist dissection of the situation of her sex, the warm aura of mystery that commonly surrounds woman has been reduced...