Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from it, an attitude they learn as boys from priests who spend nine years in darkness studying the tribal rituals. The priests, called mamas, teach that women are evil-but a necessary evil, because they provide men with food. Thus embittered against women, boys are initiated into a reluctant sexual role by a 60 year-old hag, and then sent out to seek wives...
...kids we're getting here all follow roughly the same pattern. They aren't wild-eyed ogres. They don't have sexual orgies (maybe marijuana jazzes them up, but heroin takes the sexual drive away, and 99% of our cases are going to be heroin addicts). Their I.Q.s put them in the dull-normal to normal class. Mostly they're quiet-spoken, reclusive children who are passive actors in the drama of life. We want to give these kids a feeling of human dignity that they never had before. We probably can't make them...
From the American Statistical Association committee, which has been fine-tooth-combing his research methods, Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male) Kinsey drew a nod tempered by a mild frown. Rating Kinsey's approach as "superior" to "other leading sex studies," the committee still had a few reservations about the "highly precise conclusions [he boldly drew] from the limited samples." Also, even though the doctor's own figures didn't lie, the statisticians wondered about his interviewees, some of whom were possibly afflicted with "inaccuracies of memory." The committee suspects that the variable human...
...kind that might even go to heaven. He is an unabashed user of the word "spiritual," and a strong believer in the practical utility of conceptions like God and the Devil. Unlike the orthodox followers of Sigmund Freud, who attribute most of mankind's mental troubles to the sexual conflicts of infancy, Jung maintains that the religious instinct is as strong as the sexual, and that man ignores it at his peril. Though his ideas cut freely into areas traditionally assigned to the mystic, the theologian and the philosopher, he maintains stoutly that he is a scientist. His methods...
...three main reasons: 1) simple habit,which may be the result of growing up with obese, gluttonous parents; 2) on purpose, as when a child tucks away gobs of food because then his nagging mother stops nagging; 3) psychosomatic urges, to compensate for some social, financial or sexual problem. The second and third causes eventually harden into habits...