Word: sexe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hebb claimed that sex education in the normal home is bad. Parents are leery of broaching the subject to their adolescent children. Reading such novels may at least prevent the children's picking up the wrong ideas on the street...
...power of stilbestrol to modify (at least temporarily) the sex characteristics of men & women as well as animals is still being investigated by medical science. Whether inhalation and absorption of the drug could change John Stepnowski will have to be decided by the Hudson County court...
...Guilt & Sex. Dr. Menninger sees "value in group assemblages and some kind of formal ritual. As a lifelong Presbyterian, I am not a genuflector but I respect it as one of several simple maneuvers which have the same meaning of reverence . . . The mutual stimulation, reinforcement and encouragement that the individuals of a group receive from one another are well known to psychology, and the effect of a common relationship to a leader-pastor, rabbi or priest-has been carefully examined by many scientists, including Freud. Singing together has so great and obvious a value in furthering interpersonal linkages and enthusiasm...
What the psychiatrist does try to do is simply to get people's sex lives back to normal. People cured of a crippling sense of guilt about sexual relations between husband & wife may sometimes be a bit carried away by their new freedom, "but the errors of such individuals no more indicate the sinfulness of psychoanalysis than do the sins of certain Catholics indicate the wickedness of Catholicism or the offenses of certain Protestants the failure of Christianity...
Barrel A-Rolling. The shotgun wedding of history and sex has produced enough incongruities in U.S. fiction to fill a literary museum of horrors. This one comes from Proud New Flags, the latest historical novel by F. (for Francis) van Wyck Mason.* His tetralogy on the Revolutionary War at sea has sold over 1,000,000 copies in all editions. With his new tetralogy on the Civil War at sea, Mason ought to do as well or better...