Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arriving on the foreign-mission field, the new worker finds himself or herself in a totally foreign moral environment with a radically divergent system of sexual and personal ethics, which he or she is usually not prepared to combat. The possibilities for the stimulation and gratification of the sexual side of the psychic Occidental are more numerous in the Orient, and the continual flaunting of the erotic makes its impression on the unstable personality. If he evades it, it callouses his nature; if he succumbs to its wiles, it erodes him. In either case he may be thrown into...
...Author of "Bailey and Public Opinion An Analysis of the Mind of Yale's President-Emeritus", "An Original Interpretation of Sexual Phenomena. A Letter to the Yale News," "The Ice Lena A Four-Act Play on Academic Immoralities," "Why the Bulldog is Losing His Grip Secret Chapters in Yale Football History," and "My Dismissal From the Carnegle Institute of Technology...
...body growth are influenced by the front pituitary lobe. Overactivity of the lobe causes sexual precocity, great stature, large hands and feet, culminating in the giant of the circus. Underactivity causes sexual retardation, small hands and feet, small fat bodies culminating in the true dwarf. Doubtless Dr. Steinach fed extracts of the anterior lobe to his rats. Normal people gradually growing old will take another look at the circus side shows produced by pituitary glands run riot, before they try to stop Nature's course with Dr. Steinach's serum...
Lacking these two essentials, companionate marriage must be technically regarded as a form of courtship. Nor does this detract from its possible value. Sexual experience in courtship is looked upon by many modern moralists with the utmost disapproval; even "necking," they think, is disgraceful. Other moralists have defended premarital sexual experience of a more or less complete nature. More primitive people, in various ways, have practiced it. Recent "puritanical" criticism of companionate marriage has stimulated interest in a strange pastime, widely practiced among the early inhabitants of New England and known...
...essence, companionate marriage is merely marriage without the expectation, immediate or otherwise, of propagation and with the possibility of divorce by mutual consent. Its adherents suggest legalized birth control, more complete sexual education for boys and girls...