Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnesota psychiatrists last week set forth a startling and controversial theory of sex deviations. Its net: many outwardly respectable American homes may, more or less inadvertently, "seduce" children into becoming sexual deviates. The two psychiatrists, who published their theory in the A.M.A. Journal: Dr. Adelaide M. Johnson, 52, professor of psychiatry at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. David B. Robinson, 33, of the Mayo Clinic. They put the blame for deviations squarely and almost exclusively on the parents-who in turn must have been warped by their own parents...
...Under "sexual deviation" the authors include hostile, destructive sexual behavior toward others (sadism) or accepted from others (masochism), of the same or opposite sex, and all socially unacceptable forms of overt behavior such as exhibitionism, voyeurism, fetishism, transvestism, homosexuality and bestiality. To understand the origin of these disorders, the two psychiatrists say, "the physician must face a disquieting but demonstrable fact: examples of all degrees of parental seduction of the child occur more commonly than it is comfortable to contemplate . . . The seduction may be as subtle as a caress or as blatant as actual incest...
Modern Frankness. Drs. Johnson and Robinson realize that most doctors, like laymen, react with anger and revulsion to accounts of seduction. But, they insist-and this is where they differ most markedly from many other psychiatrists-that sexual deviation is invariably the result of seduction as they broadly define it, ranging from lascivious permissiveness when a child engages in sexual stimulation to outright coercion...
...husband and wife for detailed interviews. He finds that a wife who feels insecure about her husband's love or overshadowed by his having had a previously successful marriage with children, is likely to have an insecure fetus. Often such couples rate high on the Kinsey scale of sexual activity: Dr. Javert holds that orgasm predisposes to uterine contractions and premature labor, therefore forbids intercourse during pregnancy. Granting that much remains co be learned about the workings of sex hormones, he is dead set against using stilbestrol, a synthetic drug on which many obstetricians rely heavily...
George (code name: "Rector") was not so active as his wife, mostly gathered information on refugees. As a team, they collected information on the "sexual and drinking habits" of U.S. personnel stationed in Austria so that the Russians could use it to blackmail Americans...