Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems odd that the French, whose history and literature so abound with freedom of expression as far as sex is concerned, should use sexual morality as the discriminatory basis for meting out punishment...
...confused with parthenogenesis, the artificial production of young without sexual fertilization (e.g., by chemical means...
...marriages resulted in only one child. Hotchkiss reports that, among a group of married women 20 to 29 years old who used no contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...
...fear is action. In some women it becomes an obsession, with a strong sense of guilt and the need to sacrifice themselves in the general cause. Their suffering and heroism may be intense. They seek jobs at the battlefronts, often try to forget their fear by drinking and sexual promiscuity. In other women the reaction is hysterical, involving rebellion against authority, especially against mothers. They are driven to seek experience, including sexual dangers...
...social equivalent of the nasty little hairdressers' assistants and boys from schools 'near Eton' and so forth who 'want Mosley' in England. . . . He suffered from sexual anxiety and a sense of impotence and race jealousy, a feeling very common below the Mason and Dixon Line in America...