Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...According to the New York Times's non-fiction bestseller list, U.S. readers, after briefly preferring Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind, decided they liked Peace of Mind better, after...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...
...fiction readers, the New York Times reported, now prefer Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind...
...limitation of sexual intercourse to those days of each monthly cycle in which a woman is unlikely to be fertile. The fertility period of women may vary widely. Attempts to determine it in any individual involve a full year's careful charting of her menstrual periods, daily temperature, other data...
...iron law of the white society still decrees that sexual relations between a white woman and a Negro are punishable with death "for both parties, or, at least, banishment of the woman from the community." The rigidity and violence of such a tradition, Cohn thinks, is a logical consequence of segregation, and segregation a logical consequence of the whites' refusal to tolerate intermarriage. He says flatly that there is no solution to the problem, if this is the problem. He believes that Northern Negroes and civil-rights defenders who, in attacking segregation, also attack complaisant Negroes as "handkerchief heads...