Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Works. British officialdom chanced to elect Ellis' second book (Sexual Inversion) as the point of attack for a long-contemplated descent upon some people who were trying to better the lot of illegitimates. These people had put the book?a technical monograph?on their stall of sex literature for no better reason than that their publisher and Ellis' had sent it along. Nevertheless, Ellis' name was dragged through the sewer so efficiently that only lately has he been mentionable in polite districts of the tight little isle...
...never so thoroughly before, in an inextricable interrelation. The finding, less surprising for its nature than its seemingly complete demonstrability, is this: Edgar Allan Poe's whole life "was a struggle, conducted with all the cunning of the unconscious, against a realization of the psychic impotence of his sexual nature...
...Steinach theory recognizes that the testes create spermatozoa (the male sexual cells, which keep up the endless cycle of life). At the same time, the theory supposes** that the testes form an internal secretion. This secretion pours into the blood stream by way of the veins leading from the ductless (in this case also ducted) glands, carries with it hormones, messengers. In the male these are male hormones, in the female "female sex" hormones, "ovarian" hormones, and so on according to the causation view held by the research reporter. These hormones influence the secondary sex characteristics-body build, hair distribution...
...prevented very easily-a slight incision, scarcely more than a scratch, into the conveniently accessible scrotum, a tying off of the two-foot long vas deferens of one or both of the testes, and the job is done. Thus reproduction potentiality is mechanically stopped in half or in full. Sexual continence, of course, gives approximately the same beneficial results...
...spermatozoa, of leaving to the testes the duty of producing only the male sex hormones, have been extremely satisfying, as in the case of Dr. Lorenz. The Steinach operation is performed, however, on young men-the potential fathers, heads of families-with great reluctance. In some cases-from sexual excesses, from overwork, from disease-spermatozoa production has fallen off or ceased entirely. In "older" men, usually in those who have reached their sixties, similar falling off or cessation occurs. For such the operation is beneficial. They will pep up, with all the connotations this vulgate word implies...