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Word: theodoor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the biggest of them is conversational. Despite the tremendous increase of talk about sex after World War I, public and printed discussion was accepted only gradually. As late as the '30s the New York Times refused ads for Ideal Marriage, by a highly respectable Dutch physician, Theodoor H. Van de Velde, who spoke of sex with great candor but also with an almost romantic reverence No single event did more for open discussion of sex than the Kinsey report, which got such matters as homosexuality, masturbation, coitus and orgasm into most papers and family magazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: 5,940 Women | 8/24/1953 | See Source »

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