Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Jensen ends his picture parade in the middle of a counterrevolution with Psychiatrist Marynia Farnham calling women "the lost sex," Philip Wylie calling "mom" a "jerk," and another critic jabbing at modern women who "regard their husbands not as mates, or men, or even mice, but as mats." But even if modern woman heeds her modern critics and beats a retreat for home, warns Author Jensen, she will never again make it her only beat...
Back in President Eliot's time, the proposal of a course in sex education, marriage, and mental hygiene would have been greeted by a shocked silence. To any Victorian, these topics were private matters, and not part of a liberal education...
...times have changed, and fortunately, educational practices have moved along with them. Scores of colleges now offer courses or lectures in sex and marriage. At Dartmouth, a required course for Freshmen discusses the human body, reproduction, heredity, and marriage. Swarthmore surveys the field in a biology course. Many others, follow Michigan's plan of a voluntary sociology program in marriage counsel, birth and disease control. The College should sponsor such a course, also...
After all, just because a man has a Harvard education, he has no inherent gifts that enable him to negotiate sex and marriage on instinct alone...
...suggest an upper-group Natural Sciences course with course credit but not distribution credit. The exact curriculum is better left to the doctors assigned to teach it. They can draw on many successful prototypes in other schools. The course should start soon, for there is as much need for sex hygiene and marriage counseling as for any other area of knowledge...