Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extreme. They cannot be defended in their gross descents into pornography. Though vulgar they are rarely vicious. The moral they ostensibly convey, however inartistic, is usually above reproach. Only a few which contain rehashed drummer's tales and ribald witticisms are coarse. The pseudo-art magazines despite their unmistakably sexual appeal may not be without some value in creating a whole some frankness...
Aside from possible defects in his "political honesty," the personal character of Feng is usually considered exemplary in the extreme, considering the marked proclivity of most Chinese chieftains for dissolute living. He is a total abstainer, a nonsmoker, and a vigorous combatant of loose sexual living among his troops. In his attire, "he affects the simplest and most austere garb." And it has often been reported that "he labors manually with his soldiers for a time every...
...Darwin suggested two laws, sexual selection and natural selection. Sexual selection has been laughed out of the class room, and natural selection is being abandoned, and no new explanation is satisfactory even to scientists. Some of the more rash advocates of Evolution are wont to say that Evolution is as firmly established as the law of gravitation or the Copernician theory...
Symptoms, in the beginning, are those which attend the incubation of various diseases-irregular fever dizziness, hyperaesthesia of the skin, pains in the arms and legs, loss of sexual power. Forebodings appals the sufferer; faceless shapes of doom brawl in his mind; ulcers corrupt his arms; his skin greys; his eyebrows, loosened, overhang his eyes like disheveled blinds; while his voice shrinks and becomes raucous, as if he contended for possession of it with an evil spirit. Little by little, as his body rots, an odor pervades it, more deathly and infinitely more revolting than that of the carnal house...
...powerful substance that Dr. Allen described to the doctors might be called the "essence of the eternal feminine." It is the product of the normal sex glands, the ovaries, and is poured into the blood in varying quantities during the monthly period of the sexual life of the woman...