Word: sexual
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dr. Kegel spells out a long list of symptoms that may mark this condition: bladder weakness in adolescents and young adults, poor muscle tone during pregnancy, poor recovery of muscle tone after delivery, bladder disturbances in older age groups, and poor sensory perception for women during sexual intercourse. Often, he believes, "women patiently endure [these] discomforts throughout the best years of their lives...
Corrected Frigidity. The most remarkable outcome of Kegel's work has been almost incidental: the realization that many cases of sexual maladjustment, notably apparent frigidity, could be cured by pubococcygeal retraining...
...intended something more relaxed. If so, his failure lies partly in an ill-wrought play, partly in an overwrought production. Barring the loudmouthed stranger (well-played by Pat Hingle), who for a time is invigorating, the characters do little more than suffer from upset psyches or indulge in the sexual miseries. Each revealing scene is repeated, with variations, two or three times, and betweenwhiles a neighborhood trumpeter steadily caterwauls offstage. All this not only destroys sympathy for the characters; it diminishes interest in the play. And Jack Garfein seems to have staged it as though it were a morality play...
...feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated with the very prejudice which he makes it his mission to combat...
Surely you received better explanations of Roman Catholic teaching on kissing in response to "The Venial Kiss" than the "I never heard of it being sinful" letter which you published [Oct. 29]. A kiss between unmarried persons which neither aims at nor arouses specifically sexual pleasure is not sinful. It was an excellent article on sinful kissing, but why not clarify that the Catholic Church doesn't consider all kissing sinful...