Word: sexualism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to Pope Paul's latest encyclical, sexual intercourse may only take place when procreation is the object of such intercourse. What then is the position of a woman who marries when past the age of childbearing? Are the parties to such a marriage to forgo sexual intercourse? In which case the marriage will remain forever unconsummated...
...hormone that is secreted by insects. At certain stages of an insect's life cycle, the hormone must be present to regulate growth and control the transformation from larva to pupa. At other times the hormone must be absent, or the insect will develop abnormally and never reach sexual maturity. If a sufficient dose is given to a mature female, it can make her sterile for life thus eliminating future generations. The trouble is that the hormone, synthesized in commercial quantities and sprayed across a field, could eliminate insects essential for pollination as well as those that destroy crops...
...eggs from the 10-microgram group and only half from the 1-microgram group eventually hatched into larvae. Analysis of the females that had mated with the 100-microgram males proved that between 1 and 5 micrograms of the absorbed DMF had been passed to them in the male sexual fluids, enough to cause lifelong sterilization...
...secular world, the papal stance against birth control hardened, culminating in the 1930 encyclical Casti Connubii (On Christian Marriage). Reacting to the acceptance of birth control by the Anglicans' significant Lambeth Conference that year, Pope Pius XI declared, in accordance with the natural-law theory, that since the sexual act had a procreative intent, it was a violation of divine will to interfere with it. Paul VI substantially reaffirmed that view...
...began Tehachapi's "family visiting program," one of the boldest experiments in the history of American penal reform. Some prisons in Europe and Latin America have long allowed their inmates to receive brief "conjugal visits" from wives and girl friends for the purpose of sexual release. In Mississippi, the state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded...