Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crow law was refined last week in Natal, South Africa. Sentence of four months' imprisonment for a native woman was upheld by the Natal Supreme Court; but the court suspended sentence of her partner, an R.A.F. man. Their offense: illicit sexual intercourse. In South Africa, Natal is one of the provinces where intercourse between blacks and whites is taboo. The law has previously provided equal punishment for both...
...promiscuous sexual life of the giant ragweed (Ambrosia trifide)and other species again last week brought tears to the eyes of several million U.S. hay fever sufferers. In the next few weeks a good million tons of ragweed pollen will drift imperceptibly over the U.S. seeking mates...
Sterile Men. Sexual potency in men is no sign of fertility, says Dr. Hamblen. In fact, overactivity may cause sterility for long periods of time. Underlying cause of male sterility is production of sluggish, weak, or scanty spermatozoa (there should be about 60 to 100 million sperms per cubic centimeter...
...which are carried by coffee flies, sometimes produce bright green nodules as large as walnuts on the scalp; these fibrous nodes must be dug out by surgery. Another type of filaria, mosquito-borne, is widely prevalent in the West Indies, causes elephantiasis, grotesque swelling of the arms, legs, buttocks, sexual organs. No effective ways have yet been found of treating this ailment...
...without an attack, now walks four or five blocks with no trouble. Others climb several flights of stairs, work longer hours, have a complexion of "healthy pink" instead of grey. The injections of the hormone are so small, said Dr. Hamm, that none of the old men felt any sexual stimulation. Unlike the "dynamite" pills, testosterone works very gradually, gives no relief during an attack. After their first course of injections, most patients need a maintenance dosage of one a month...