Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mentally afflicted is quite low. However, he believes that doctors should sterilize the feebleminded. He claims that absolute prevention of births in this group would lead to a reduction of at least 10% in a generation. Twenty-nine States now have sterilization laws. (The necessary operation does not preclude sexual relations.) But he is against compulsory sterilization for any other persons. Doctors should be educated to urge voluntary sterilization of persons known to be carriers of serious hereditary defects. Voluntary population control, he believes, is as much an earmark of sound eugenics as it is of Democracy. Genetic tools...
British Broadcasting Corp. told Germans last week: "This news [Schirach's appointment] is a blow to all Austrians because they are not usually accustomed to meeting people of his sexual inclinations. . . ." Actually buxom Baldur is a family man with several children...
...Only one of the 74 girls was mentally deficient. Many were "irresponsible and precocious children who had been running wild." One or two had been assaulted, some of the younger girls "had been the victims of incest," but most of them had entered into sexual relations willingly...
...ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through sexual intercourse with a virgin child; that leads her to its spiritual parallel, the relief of her own evil through the corruption, or killing, of a pure soul. A young gypsy who happens through is just her meat. Persuading him to camp a while on her land with his wife and children...
...follow the precepts and live an "I AM Presence-like life" are called "Hundred Percenters." Last week bewildered Hundred Percenters met in their "temples of instruction," wondered what to do next. Pending the trial's outcome, most decided to continue their abstinence from meat, alcohol, narcotics, tobacco, sexual intercourse, onions and garlic...