Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. But literary and political historians will find little in Enjoyment of Living to give them an inside view of that magazine. Nor, indeed, will they find much information about any kind of American life-except Max Eastman's own. There is endless talk of his sexual and mental characteristics-an often maudlin study which is not so much a matter of enjoyment as an involved, embarrassing account of the continuous trials & errors of an uncertain and mentally harried intellectual. The book carries Eastman from his unwanted birth ("a gloom in a minister's family") to the night...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
Said Columbia Psychiatrist Jules Eisenbud: Kinsey uncovered facts, but his methods did not go deep enough to show whether there is any relation between sexual activity and mental health. Dr. Eisenbud added darkly that some sexual events are so deeply buried that they are dug up only under psychiatric treatment. As for Kinsey's hint that there are no such things as normality or abnormality in sex: "nonsense...
Some of the men started to replan their lives and talked of becoming cooks or farmers. Sex fantasies and dreams declined; sexual impulses disappeared in all but a few. Said one: "I have no more sexual feeling than a sick oyster...
...must be repeated that the goal of 'dating' is not in the first place sexual satisfaction. An 'easy lay' is not a good 'date,' and conversely. . . ." For many girls, says Gorer, the "dating" period is one of humiliation, of frustration, of failure. But such unsuccessful girls are often married earlier and better than the "belles" who find it difficult to give up such triumphs...