Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obvious pandering to the prurient prudery of the American movie-going public, the brazen commercialization of a morbid interest in social disease and sex delinquency, found in a long line of "For Adults Only" pictures, from "Is Your Daughter Safe" of years ago, to the current "Road to Ruin," is a revolting commentary on the rule of King Dollar. The advertising of such films is calculated to make the adolescent-minded public believe that fornication and other assorted lecheries are shown in all their nakedness on the screen, gotten past the censors by a thin veneer of hypocritical "educational" advice...
...meaning of the word 'obscene' as legally defined by the courts is: 'Tending to stir the sex impulses or to lead to sexually impure and lustful thoughts.' . . . After I had made my decision in regard to the aspect of Ulysses now under consideration I checked my impressions with two friends. . . . I was interested to find that they both agreed with my opinion: that reading Ulysses in its entirety . . . did not tend to excite sexual impulses or lustful thoughts but that its net effect on them was only that of a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary...
Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, I fear, have been more successful with the magazine than they have been with the anthology which contains only a few outstanding short stories. First, I shall touch briefly on the self-conscious authors who treat sex sensationally, and badly; into this category come Bruce Brown, Erskine Caldwell, James Stern, and George Albee. The last man mentioned describes pithily and dully the reactions of a seventeen-year-old boy when he is assured that he has contracted syphilis from a girl whom he loves. "Week-End," by Carlton Brown is an amusing description...
...tell a boy outright she would like to see him. Junior Durkin, having grown rapidly out of the adolescent stage of wanting "a mother for my children," is captivated by a giggling siren. The Mclntyres give an ice cream and punch party at which both brother and sister find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren's attention, Junior pushes over a traffic cop, goes to jail. Though this experiment is unsuccessful, a new dog and girl console him. Meanwhile his sister, faring better, develops a working compromise between being a pal and a flirt...
There is no sentiment in a bird's sex life. Most people think the male struts and flaunts his plumage to take the female's fancy. What he is really attempting is intimidation. So reported Cornell University's Ornithologist Arthur Augustus Allen to some 400 colleagues gathered in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History last week for the golden jubilee meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union...