Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special hormone which has not yet been identified. If its hormone does not exist, some substance like a hormone profoundly affects the whole body. It has sharp effect on the sympathetic nervous system and a profound effect on the genital apparatus. Overgrowth of the cortex is associated with precocious sexual development. Such overgrowth accounts for those rare cases where an exuberant girl changes into a shy boy with boyish hair on face, limbs and body, slim buttocks and thighs and certain internal atrophies and growths (TIME...
...Columbia Varsity (undergraduate illustrated literary magazine issued five times yearly) published the results of a social questionnaire they had sent to Seniors. To the question "Do you believe in sexual relations outside of marriage?" 20 answered no, 55 yes. Sixty would not "marry only a woman of no sexual experience." Fifteen would. Asked if religion had "any appeal to you as part of a personal philosophy," 36 said it had, 37 said it hadn...
...cosmopolitan and perverse Berlin, Sadism and kindred anomalies are well known and understood. The Sadist is recognized as an individual who commits acts of cruelty upon animals or humans not in a spirit of simple violence but because he derives from them complex sexual satisfaction. As every Berlin detective knows, Sadism takes its name from a Frenchman born in the reign of dissolute Louis XV, famed Donatien Alphonse François Comte ("Marquis") de Sade, whose incredibly voluminous and wearisomely detailed writings glorify "the philosophy of cruelty for its own sake" much as Christian writers exalt Divine Love...