Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard spanking of Havelock Ellis, he accuses Ellis of betraying his Puritanism by using the word obscenity-though he himself has used the whole thesaurus of sexual fear and shame...
...will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments to her brilliant talk, magnetism, energy. Complicating these virtues were her ugliness, aggressiveness, radicalism, sexual neurosis. Like all her biographers, Author Wade tries hard to riddle Hawthorne's characterization, subtlest and most devastating of all. "She was," said Hawthorne, "a great humbug-of course with much talent and moral reality, or else she could have never been so great a humbug...
Journalist Douglas Reed, who was for many years London Times correspondent in Berlin, sensed a dark parallel. In a letter to the Daily Telegraph & Morning Post he wrote: "Are we going to tread the whole path that Berlin trod and have palaces of sexual perversion with electric signs outside advertising the wares? To anybody who remembers the appalling conditions in Berlin between 1918 and 1930, the present trend of affairs in London is terrifying. . . . Girls do not WANT to dance nude. They want to become stars as singers, dancers, or actresses. ... All are told that stardom is within their reach...
...with sport and obsessive ideas: were not other countries keeping her in perpetual unrest, she would in a couple of generations be converted to pederasty. . . ." Most of all he deplores what he sees in Ingeborg Torsen, a fine young woman who, thanks to her feminist education, has become a sexual derelict, disconsolately out for what she can get. She manages inadvertently to cause a murder; she is bound, for a while, to a dismal little actor who lives off her. Subtly, she is interested in the old man; uneasily, he is drawn to her. During the next year...
...That academic freedom cannot "permit a teacher to teach . . . that sexual intercourse between students, where the female is under the age of 18 years, is proper...