Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pamphlet, one of a series including "The Second Coming of Jesus," and "Dangerous Bathing Suits," declaimed: "Much of the present-day dancing has a direct sexual appeal: Avoid it if you would keep pure...
...shows that: 1) Many Utopias succeeded until they knuckled their ideals under. 2) The most successful were religious, not scientific, communisms. 3) The destiny of most was determined by the hypnotic influence of an inspired-or maniacal-leader, and changed with his death. 4) Not one dared to meet sexual problems pointblank; even bold Oneida's "complex marriage" outlawed pleasure. 5) With few, ephemeral exceptions, Utopians feared individualists as they feared...
...mentioned that he was writing his memoirs. My secretary, knowing that Sherwood had lived in many portions of the United States, and thinking also of the variety of his writing, asked whether his memoirs would be "sectional." "Oh, no," replied Sherwood with a surprised, reproachful glance, "not at all sexual." I think that, more than anything else, indicates that he was sensitive about this criticism...
Libido, the technical name for sexual desire, is not triggered by the glands, but by the brain. So Neurologists John Mills Brookhart and Frederick Lemuel Dey of Northwestern University told the American Physiological Society in Chicago last week...
...Cryptogamic-i.e., devious in sexual behavior. As late as 1875 many scientists argued that some fungi were of spontaneous generation. So tiny and evasive were the winter spores of the potato fungus that they were not identified until 1910. Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations...