Word: sexed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time for us to say that the advocacy of 'unmarried unions' and 'sex experiments' is not only shameful but damnable-a sin against God, and an affront to all right-minded people, both young and old. And it is time for us to see to it that we know what is being taught to our children in our churches and in our universities...
...Church, Ann Arbor, Mich, (site of the University of Michigan) made the other before the Protestant Episcopal Church Congress at San Francisco a fortnight ago. Each man made earnest plea for the revaluing of moral (ethical) standards, and in each case newspapers "played up" their comments on sex standards...
...conclusion let me sound an optimistic note. My contact with the coming generation makes me proud of them. They are in love with life. They are keenly interested in their fellow beings. They seek causes rather than fundamentals. They freely discuss sex morality. They try experiments, often to the horror of their parents-but here is the chief point, 'they live by what they think is right,' not by code. And the thing which is encouraging is that more and more a similar attitude may be seen in the Church. It is getting away from precept and code...
...Significance. Author Jameson contradicts the conceit which makes many women writers concentrate on the opposite sex. Her best characters have all been women. Her themes, it is true, often concern women doing men's work, organizing their lives toward a new freedom. The Lovely Ship in manner bears some resemblance to the writings of Joseph Hergesheimer, but Miss Jameson is more interested in making her people live than in describing ten-course dinners. Her performance in this book is one of almost pure perfection. An intention beautifully realized excuses an occasional prolixity. An infrequent weakness is overbalanced by Miss...
Marjorie Fry, Principal of Somerville College (one of the four women's colleges at Oxford) defended her sex "not as women but as human beings"; declared that she was "sick unto death" of hearing her sex discussed, that she was not aware of any increased immorality at Oxford since the advent of large numbers of female students. Said she: "The scandals that were rather hopefully foretold when it was decided to admit women have not taken place...