Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name of Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey is a household word. To those who do not know him, it stands for sex with a capital S, with special emphasis on sexual aberrations. To those who do know him, it stands for a quiet, 58-year-old academician who takes the same kind of interest in sex as he does in gall wasps...
...Cambridge Police Chief Timothy J. O'Leary banned the book in this city. He followed the lead of the Boston Police, and the Boston Bookseller's Association, both of which joined in squashing sale of the book. The group asked the author to delete three lines of "sexual phraseology...
...could not produce bail, he was tossed into the county jail in Riverhead to await trial in jail, he found just what he was looking for. Young first offenders, as he wrote last week, were locked up in filthy, verminous cells with second and third offenders, dope addicts and sexual degenerates. One aged psychopath, who screamed all night, four days after his release committed suicide by taking rat poison. For exercise, his cellmates' chief amusement was to strip to the waist and beat one another black & blue. Young prisoners staged "aspirin" parties to get "high" by grinding up aspirin...
When, after another illness, the musicologist moves into the town, Devil concentrates on life outside the walls. Now the assorted evils of everyday life in the world are seen in contrast to monkish goodness. Truly the devil rides outside, where spite, greed, hatred (and again & again sexual temptation) plague and disgust the hero...
Curator Oliver would like to breed tuataras in the Bronx Zoo, but they have no external sexual characteristics. The only way to distinguish males from females is to wait for the mating season, when the tuataras, croaking, make their own decisions. New Zealand is not yet ready to release enough tuataras for this auto-selection experiment...