Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual value of the Hygiene course as it is now run is slight indeed. Most of the health advice dispensed is too well known to need any elucidation from the lecture platform, and the sex information is of the sketchy type that is given to the more impressionable members of the Y.M.C.A. It seems designed mainly to keep the boys away from "fast women"; a rather futile attempt one is tempted to think, considering the type of female company generally preferred by the Freshman just released from parental discipline and ready to find out about Life at the "Tent...
...elemental health problems and entirely eliminating the examination. Moreover, they should be given by Dr. Worcester, who because of his charm and lecturing ability is probably the only man who could make them worth hearing. As a sop to University Hall they could be made compulsory. The problem of sex hygiene could be handled far more adequately by a series of small conferences which might be very well held in each entry during the course of the year; or the present system of voluntary meetings might be continued. Such a reorganization would solve the problems which now beset Hygiene...
...Economics is a subject of vast and increasing importance. Economic motives lie very deep, perhaps even deeper than Freud conceives of sex motives as lying; for if the perpetuity of the race rests on sex motives, then the continuing existence of the race rests on economic motives. They underlie and color all our conduct. Such a fundamental subject certainly should be taught with thoroughness. The question is how to teach it with thoroughness...
Impossible characters, an unbelievable plot, and complete disregard of the life-work of Margaret Sanger rob the picture of any value as sex-education propaganda. The association of passionate osculation with such things as positive Wasserman reactions and unsanitary abortions is not, however, without effect. The reviewer heard a damsel who had all the earmarks of an inmate of a local institution of higher learning for females remark after the show, "I don't see how a girl could ever want to kiss anyone again after seeing that...
...capitalistic system make us all too aware of the adventurous campaigning life that America's women have lead. But do they reveal to us the more quiet homemaking life of women which even today is in many quarters still regarded as the chief task of the "other sex...