Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stroheim describes the preliminary grappling that leads to Paprika's fifth seduction. Before she is grudgingly made an honest woman she goes through eight such man-handlings. Modestly blurbed by Publisher Macaulay as a story that "uncovers with the blunt scalpel of realism the sadism inherent in the sexual plexus of a woman's being," Paprika takes the cake on several counts...
...influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough to set Berlin gossips hissing like snakes. People not invited insisted that there were buckets of champagne, sexual orgies...
...Acre was lascivious, lewd, indecent. Judge Greenspan, a liberal, failed to see eye to eye with Mr. Sumner, dismissed the charge. But the Viking Press prefers to be cautious with Journeyman. Less subtle than God's Little Acre, less clogged with esoteric symbolism, it is totally innocent of sexual circumlocutions...
...nudding but a frustrated sexual urch! Men und vimmin running around poodle-naked und throwing medicine balls! Ridiculous! Now you take me. Effery morning of my life at seven o'clock in de morning I valk down de railroad traggs in Sout' Braintree Massajusetts until I am in de voods. And den I sid on a rock, and take off all my glothes and schmoke a tsigar and rhead Omar Kayyam. But do I have to choin a Verein? Do I haf to have a Praesident und a Honorary Praesident...
...once declared, "should indulge in marital infidelity to preserve their homes....Marriage is not the culmination of romantic love as is conventionally supposed. It should be primarily a system whereby a home may be provided for children-and making a home has nothing, or very little, to do with sexual love." To most normal Anglo-Saxons such talk was the rankest social heresy and to most U. S. homes Earl Russell, for all his gift of persuasive language, was nothing but a reprehensible old lecher...