Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost . . . the spiritual dimension, and for whom life has no ultimate meaning. . . . Only a small percentage of the nation today regularly joins in public worship of any kind. The war has revealed and has also accelerated a sharp decline in truthfulness and personal honesty and an alarming spread of sexual laxity and the gambling fever...
From London last week came news of a French attempt to solve this sere national problem. The report (which the French Ministry of Health understandably denied) : the French Government is buying ?25,000,000 worth of that restorer of physical and sexual vigor, testosterone, the male hormone (TIME, May 28). Treatment, by injection, will be voluntary, secret and free to any man under Government medical care or returning from captivity...
...confusion was soon resolved in disaster. Young Woollcott had barely enjoyed the triumph of being hired as a reporter for the New York Times when he was stricken with mumps. The already abnormal youth left his bed "if not totally neutralized, permanently depleted of sexual capacity." His skinny frame took on "the unhealthy fat of semi-eunuchism." It was no wonder that his vindictiveness became so "swift . . . shocking and poisonous," that his fellow reporters, used to less skillful insult, feared and avoided him. But Woollcott made his unpopularity a badge of honor, turned his brashhess into a ruthless faculty...
...direct violation of Dr. Pincher's theory of the declining birth rate [TIME, May 7] due to the overheating of the sexual organs, I would like to point out that it is a common practice in the everyday life of the Japanese to take baths at terrific temperatures. . . . Apparently the Japanese are immune to this . . . for certainly it cannot be said that the Japanese birth rate is declining...
...glands 20 milligrams of a substance which, when injected into capons, restored them to roosterhood. It was also tried on a 26-year-old eunuchoid male who lacked all libido and most of the outward signs of masculinity (beard, deep voice, etc.). After 53 days of injections, both the sexual urge and the power to consummate it appeared. But the transformation exhausted Koch's supply of the hormone, and the patient lapsed into his former condition...