Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offspring of the Greek gods Hermes and Aphrodite was bi-sexual Hermaphrodites. The Egyptian moon deity, too, was hermaphroditic, and one Biblical commentator declares: "When the Holy One . . . created the first man, he created him a hermaphrodite." In spite of the antiquity of man's interest in the subject, until last week there was still a place for an exhaustive clinical study of hermaphroditism and what to do about it surgically, which has now been filled by Dr. Hugh Hampton Young's Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases (Williams & Wilkins...
...medical histories of 55 cases, and the plastic surgical operations which he performed on as many of them as he could to make them at least look like normal men or women. One hermaphrodite, who passed as a Negress, told him: "I have derived great pleasure from, many sexual affairs with women, and never with my two husbands." Dr. Young assured her-him that it would be easy to make her into a man, but only at the cost of her female configuration. The hermaphrodite: "If you did that, I would have to quit my husband and go to work...
...aware. During her Congressional term, a bitter argument preceded her removal from a park board post to which Mrs. McCarthy felt herself entitled for life. Answer to her charges by Will T. Beck, former member of the State Board of Administration, was that "most of the girls sterilized were sexual perverts, obstreperous, fighters or near degenerates. . . . Parents or guardians . . . were notified. . . . Few appeared to protest." Mr. Beck also produced a letter from enthusiastic Lulu Coyner, now retired to Longview, Wash., describing her sterilizations as "the finest service to society the Girls' Industrial School has ever contributed." Said Chairman William...
...galleries, the Toledo Museum of Art last week acquired five paintings by contemporary U. S. painters, all of them well known. Bought before the paint was dry on it in Eugene Speicher's studio at Woodstock, N. Y. was Blue Necklace, a quietly florid and sexual portrait of a girl in a pink bodice, one shoulder strap fallen, brooding over a letter held in her open lap. Others: a sentimental painting of a young girl sewing by Frederick C. Frieseke. a vivid luminosity with figure by Alexander Brook, a nude by Guy Pène du Bois...
...Consanguinity, lack of free consent, mistaken identity, mental deficiency, insanity, sexual immaturity, impotence, venereal disease, bigamy...