Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...human race was not yet ready to admit that it was being scourged by syphilis. Because the disease was generally contracted in the course of sexual misconduct, an enormous social taboo had developed. Victims suffered in silence or ignorance while Society took the moral view that they had simply got what was coming to them. To break down this taboo in the U. S. and tackle syphilis scientifically rather than morally is the high and burning purpose in the official life of Surgeon General Parran...
...Ambassador-on-Special-Mission Franz von Papen who as long ago as 1933 negotiated a Concordat for Der Führer with Il Papa. Yet typical Nazi newsorgans have been stewing up hotter & hotter scandals about German Catholic dignitaries, lumping them all, by implication, as currency smugglers and sexual perverts. In a recent issue of Julius Streicher's Der Stürmer appeared the ultimate in double-barreled cartoons: on the left under the caption Sworn to Satan a leering Jew seducing a German maiden; on the right a priest and nun tagged Belonging to the Church; these...
...exact account of the medical procedure which changes the sexual status of the subject...
...Broster of London's Charing Cross Hospital performed two operations to complete Mary Weston's metamorphosis into masculinity. Said Dr. Broster: "Mr. Mark Weston, who was always brought up as a female, is male, and should continue life as such." As to whether Mark Weston could have sexual intercourse or achieve paternity, Dr. Broster did not publicly hazard a guess. Last week in Plymouth, Mr. Mark Weston revealed that he had married Miss Alberta Bray week before...
Such cases of "sex change" fascinate not only tabloid editors but also serious students of the tremendous complexity and almost infinite variations of human hermaphroditism. To sober medical men, it does not seem strange that Nature some times blurs sexual development in men & women. Biologists say there is no such thing as absolute sex. Anatomists recognized a consistent parallelism between the genital structures of male & female. Recent research on such female sex hormones as theelin reveals that the corresponding male hormones are chemically almost identical. Normal men generate traces of female hormones, and vice versa. Thus, being male or female...