Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sigmund Freud, now 73, suggests how his psychoanalysis is affecting anthropology, study of religion, literary history, education. He also announces: "The belief that in man sexual life begins only at, puberty is incorrect...
Uncle Sham. Dr. Sunderland adds an appendix chapter roundly flaying, firmly negating Katherine Mayo's popular U. S. handbook of Indian dirtinesses and sexual shortcomings, Mother India.* But a Unitarian clergyman cannot meet Miss Mayo on her chosen ground. That has just been done by a scathing Lahore publicist, Kanhaya Lai Gauba. His book is Uncle Sham.† Without pausing to tilt over India with Miss Mayo he plunges straight into an exposé of U. S. dirtiness and shortcomings. Quoting chapter and verse from Herbert Hoover, Ben B. Lindsey, Bernarr Macfadden and many another, avenging Kanhaya Lai Gauba...
...this is primarily a scholarly book, it contains points such as the following for man-in-the-street's consideration: "The attaching of a market-value to a woman has tended to raise the standard of female chastity." "There is no doubt that the various forms of love-sexual, parental, paternal, filial, and social-are kindred emotions." "Other things being equal, the savage regards the satisfaction of the sexual instinct exactly as he regards the satisfaction of hunger and thirst." In giving psychological data on chastity, kissing, love, obscenity, orgy, oath, curse, blessing, Author Crawley. though Nordic, writes...
...white men?say Negro men. Many a Southern gentleman had, and has, children by his cook. Author White points out that Southern white women themselves frown on lynching as a means of protecting their virtue, which Negroes protected during the Civil War, when white husbands were away. Lynchers, usually sexual perverts, seldom wait for confirmation of alleged attacks. A rumor, a whisper, a bloodthirsty suggestion by one of a crowd of street loungers, is enough...
...genital apparatus in main detail, with illustrations by Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson, gynecologist and eugenist. She told of ovulation. She described insemination. She wrote: "Don't let any one drag you into nasty talk or thought about sex. It is not a nasty subject." She mentioned the two terrible sexual diseases. She concluded with: "The physical side of love is the intensely intimate part of it, and the most critical for happiness...