Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology, yesterday branded the new-famous Kinsey report on "Sexual Behavior in the Human Male" as one more step towards "the disruption of the American family system...
...Frederick Charles Baxter of London, England were married in 1934. For ten years they lived together in a connubial state that Mr. Baxter decided was unsatisfactory: Mrs. Baxter consistently refused to have sexual intercourse with him unless he used a contraceptive...
...about as satiric as a light opera can be. Instead of attacking such innocent clay-pigeons as the nobility or Oscar Wilde or Tennyson, Gilbert allows his tricky verses to bite into the touchy and important phases of modern life. The hypocrisy behind commercialism in modern government and behind sexual morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled in England, and they return paragons of virtue, "Extremely modest (so we're told), Demurely coy--divinely cold." They bring with them six "flowers of progress...
...than what the novel contains-that the daily routines of the teaching of history or a job with the light company are more interesting than the talks in the barroom; that the religious faith of the community has an elevation more significant than is expressed in its condemnation of sexual misdoings; that the tormented love affairs reveal a groping tenderness deeper than the bitter words that attend their endings; and finally, that the whole texture of life, the routines of going to work and to school, marriage and the raising of families, is kindlier and happier than is ever stated...
...fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...