Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soul-searchers). They had come from 54 countries to meet in London in a UNsponsored International Congress on Mental Health. Not all went for the guilt theory. Holland's husky Dr. E. Krijgers-Janzen thought that wars were caused by sex. Too much "moral restraint," he said, caused sexual frustration which in turn caused people to become aggressive in other ways...
...weeks the Chief and the Arch-Vicar encourage the most indiscriminate promiscuity so that the state may gain manpower; afterwards, when the helots are put to work, all sexual contact is strictly forbidden. Poole is urged to join the California priesthood, which can be done by submitting to an operation that will forever remove potency. But in the meantime Poole has discovered a luscious vessel named Loola, who has taught him a few things. Preferring Loola to eunuch lordship, Poole escapes from Los Angeles towards a lonely northern outpost where, it is rumored, men are still...
...missionary's late-Victorian widow (Ann Todd) that she becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow is that she is all but certifiably gullible in matters of business and the heart. And since she is the heroine, there...
Cripples and invalids came. "My discovery," Brown proclaimed, "will increase the life span of man to 120 years. Don't worry. My cell also extends the sexual life of man ... It will make old women feel like kittens, and old men potent. I can shake the hand of an asthmatic," said Brown, "and he will be well...
...chronicler; in San Francisco. She scored her first success in 1902 with The Conqueror, a novelized biography of Alexander Hamilton, later established her name with her historical novels and social histories of California. In 1923 she hit the jackpot with her top bestseller, Black Oxen, which described her own sexual rejuvenation by X-ray treatment...