Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Ernest Rutherford Groves, 57, lecturer on marriage at University of North Carolina, twice married and the father of four, thought there was too much emphasis on physical sex. Said he: "The chief problems of sex adjustment are the mental attitudes. Sex as mere technique can be taught in 15 minutes...
...Marriage and Family Social Relations called jointly by Columbia University's Teachers College, American Social Hygiene Association and American Home Economics Association, 250 educators, physicians, religious and social workers journeyed from far & near to Manhattan last week. Agreed that divorces can be prevented, lives made happier by planting sex and family education in every school in the land, they sat down in seven committees to work out a plan of instruction. On the third day rose the question of whether engaged couples, barred from marriage by Depression or other causes, should be encouraged to have sexual relations...
When peace was restored the conference approved "in principle" its committees' plan for a course in sex and family education to last from first grade through college. A few delegates made reservations. Director Lyman Lloyd Bryson of California Association for Adult Education feared that "the tendency toward over-intellectualization of sex education for children has robbed the sex process of emotional drive...
...proposed to her, she said, but when she told him about Premier Brownlee he withdrew his offer of marriage, offered instead his advice on how to sue the Premier and recover damages. When she finally broke with him, according to Miss MacMillan, Premier Brownlee was "a love-torn, sex-crazed victim of passion...
...Chicago last April sex-curious George Rogalski, 14, lured Dorette Zietlow, 2½, into an abandoned icehouse, stripped her and left her there to die. Chicago's Superintendent of Schools William J. Bogan promptly announced that he was going to have the dark little minds of all Chicago's "problem children'' plumbed by psychoanalysis (TIME, April 23). By last week he was not far along with his plan. "The big difficulty," explained Dr. Daniel P. MacMillan, director of child study and guidance, "is educating the principals to pick out defective cases...