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Word: sexuality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Girls like Rosie, a 17-year-old Negro, were in a sharp minority. She said ". . . she enjoyed sexual relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Love or Nothing | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...Woman's World. Raven is the hero. He is identified as a "genius," a man with a "revolutionary" mind. Genius or not, he is deceitful, lazy, lousy, and hardly knows up from down. His cardinal urges are sexual, although he doesn't begin to understand why. Pregnancy, everyone believes, is a matter of solitary female ritual, magic; the child is a fruit of moonstruck female blood. "There was not much to feed a man's ego," Novelist Fisher explains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When Women Ruled the Roost | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...living person; a study of the Manichaean heresy (the notion that the Devil is as powerful as God and that they struggle for supremacy); the galloping putrefaction of American letters; the galloping putrefaction of moral and political values. Author Wilson has also chosen to write literally (and incidentally) about sexual intercourse. As a result, Memoirs of Hecate* County will probably be hailed as an event in gaminess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evil in Our Time | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Whether a "wayward" girl is a euphemism or a description, the San Francisco City Clinic has decided that "promiscuous" women can be defined: "Married women who had engaged in any extramarital sexual relations within [the last six months] and single women who have had sexual relations with more than one man, or with one man more than twice, within the same period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Promiscuous | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Fritz Leo, German: "I have seen bodies with the livers removed for food. I have seen many bodies with the ears cut off, parts of cheeks, shoulders, arms, back and even parts of sexual organs cut off for food, either eaten raw or cooked later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Inferno on Trial | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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