Word: sexes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There seems to be a well-established conviction that college Freshmen have a regrettable lack of familiarity with the Facts of Life. Hence the compulsory course in sex-hygiene, which in its present vague character amounts to little more than a useless drain of a first-year man's time. The lectures give a mere smattering of elementary physiology and deep-breathing; and only a few of them are actually concerned with sex hygiene...
...considerable value to the embryonic sophisticates of the Yard. That the problem can be solved only by complete reorganization of the present course is also evident. The simple health data could well be compressed into a few lectures. A series of small meetings for the discussion of sex problems, similar to those which Dr. Worcester now gives on request, and at which attendance might be compulsory, would be more than adequate to take care of the main function of the present rambling curriculum. The advantages which a small meeting possesses for instruction in sex hygiene are fairly obvious. Lastly...
...department: "For a Puritanized American writer to show gusto would be comparable to a Harvard Professor who writes books admitting that he enjoyed the sex act." B. De. Casseres, "Mencken and Shaw...
Vitamin D, the vitamin which controls the growth of bones, prevents rickets, is formed by sunlight acting on ergosterol, a vegetable substance. Chemical twin of ergosterol is cholesterol which is involved with the female sex hormone theelin. Sex hormones are intimately connected with growth, and so the "sterols" may be a foundation for all kinds of growth...
Biochemists were no sooner positive of the hormone-vitamin relationship in the growing processes, than they discovered a sterol-like substance in coal tar which causes certain kinds of cancer. Cancer is a form of growth, but unregulated. The cancerogenic coal tar "sterol" causes the same sex changes in rats as does the hormone theelin. The breasts and uterus are common sites of cancer, and many an investigator has suspected a sex hormone as a possible cause. Knowledge of growth, hormones and vitamins are becoming interlaced to the biochemist's delight. He is confident that from them...