Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Passionately addicted to self-scrutiny, the 20th century started out talking and worrying about its sex life with a nervous intensity that would have appalled earlier ages; it made prophets of Sigmund Freud, Havelock Ellis and that Baedeker of sexual abnormality, Richard von Krafft-Ebing. What remained was for someone to link the age's preoccupation with sex to its passion for statistics. That job was taken on, not surprisingly, by an American-Alfred Charles Kinsey of Bloomington, Ind., zoologist by training, who was determined to observe the sex behavior of the human animal with the scientific methods...
Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male (1948). published by a medical textbook house, caught on like a Book-of-the-Month Club choice, unexpectedly became a bestseller and made its author's name a national byword. Its successor, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), sold less well. What appealed to the public was precisely what horrified many a scientist: the implication in both books that, despite the small size of the statistical samples (5.300 men and 5,940 women), the studies reflected an accurate cross section of human sexual behavior...
Died. Dr. Alfred Charles Kinsey, 62, zoologist, statistician, and top-ranking authority on gall wasps, whose team in 1948 turned out the bestseller Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, later (1953) scored again with the companion volume Sexual Behavior in the Human Female; of a heart ailment and pneumonia: in Bloomington, Ind. (see MEDICINE...
...with this caveat, the bishop invites Catholic psychiatrists to pay special attention to the problems of mystical phenomena (ecstasy, levitation, visions, stigmatization), vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and such common lay problems as sexual aberrations and "the ever practical matter of the validity of the assent given to the marriage contract...
...possible. In early years, Mongoloids are happy, playful and easily manageable. It is often the parents who need treatment. As a "parent counselor," Dr. Koch has to deal with marital tensions. "The problem is that these women don't want to have children again, and it often causes sexual incompatibility. I urge them to have children. It takes their guilt feelings away...