Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What makes a man manly or a woman womanly-or vice versa? Many homosexuals are living proof that physical organs alone are not decisive. Freud and his followers argued that the sexual personality was often determined by seemingly trivial incidents in childhood. When the so-called "sexual hormones" (testosterone in men, estradiol in women) were discovered, many physicians decided that hormones must be the agents which determine sexual behavior. In recent years, tens of thousands of effeminate males and masculine females have been given shots of one or the other...
...current Psychosomatic Medicine, Dr. William H. Perloff of Philadelphia vigorously debunks the supposed importance of hormones in determining sexual appetites. Although most widely used in treating impotence and frigidity, hormones are useful, says he, only in the rare cases where these disorders are plainly caused by a hormone imbalance. Both homosexuality and milder cases where patients show mannerisms of the opposite sex are entirely psychological in origin, says Perloff. For these, hormone treatments are useless...
...Party, 'Tis of Thee. Heretic Winston Smith not only commits the crime of sexual pleasure with Julia, he also drags her with him into the underground movement-only to find that it is being run by the Oceanian bosses precisely as a trap for would-be rebels. In the torture chambers of the Ministry of Love he discovers how refined totalitarian dogma has become since the primitive days of Hitler and Stalin. No longer do party leaders pretend that they seized power for idealistic reasons and in the hope of creating a better world. Power is now frankly...
Popular errors that Dr. Lawrence dispels include the notion that acne comes from too much or too little sexual activity (acne victims sometimes rush into marriage as a curative measure), too rich blood, venereal diseases, bacterial infections ; that it can be cured by sulphur & molasses or other home remedies, or by medicated soaps, hormone creams, special massages and packs, cleansing creams and oily lotions, kidney or liver pills, tonics, or special herbs...
...most likely to cause conception when he has abstained from sexual intercourse for five days. In general, said Dr. Farris, only 40% of U.S. males are highly fertile, 17% are sterile. Said he: "We don't .understand what causes about 20% of sterility in men. Maybe it's a result of our civilization...