Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rebuttal. Dr. Thorpe's attorneys wheeled into action the most formidable instrument for destroying a film character by sexual innuendo that California had seen since the 1922 "Fatty" Arbuckle case. Dr. Thorpe, after the divorce, had apparently stolen a two-volume diary kept by his exwife. Its revelations, doled out day by day from his attorney's office, were as purple as the ink they were written in. "Why the hell I keep writing things down in this book I don't know," began the first instalment of what the tabloid Press promptly labeled "The Misstep Diary...
...Briffault and Iwan Bloch, who have maintained that primitive societies were promiscuous and that the family, as a relatively recent development in human society, will eventually disappear. Dr. Westermarck says that he has examined the evidence in detail and has come to the conclusion that complete freedom in sexual relations has never existed even "among a single people," makes a strong case for his side...
Analyzing sexual maladjustments, adultery and jealousy, homosexuality and bisexuality and other causes of married unhappiness, Dr. Westermarck methodically weighs the alternatives to marriage in free love, companionate marriage, trial marriage, quickly disposes of the "predicted disappearance of marriage" in a brief chapter. He looks forward to more enlightened opinions on sexual conduct, believes that the frequency of divorce is a sign of the strength of marriage rather than of its weakness, anticipates a time when it will be recognized that "sexual acts are morally indifferent and no proper objects for penal legislation if nobody is injured by them...
...Nazi Germany's most dangerous clowns is round, red Julius Streicher, Governor of Franconia, who affects a riding crop, likes to be called the "Bloody Tsar of Nürnberg," and lards his anti-Jew harangues with so much sexual obscenity that they can be printed in full only in his own Der Strümer. Last week a naturalized U. S. citizen named Ludwig Hoffmann was in a Nürnberg jail for having had the audacity to describe Nürnberg's Boss Streicher as a Lump at a Nürnberg beer festival. Citizen Hoffmann...
When his bull elephant grows restless, begins to ooze oily liquid from the porous spot in its forehead, the mahout in the teakwood forests of Upper Burma chains his big beast of burden securely, leaves it strictly alone until the condition is past. This periodic frenzy, probably sexual, is called "must" (from the Hindu mast, meaning ruttish, intoxicated). Because of it. bull elephants are extremely rare in U. S. circuses and zoos. Some months ago Director Edmund Heller of San Francisco's Fleishhacker Zoo decided to try breeding his four cow elephants, began looking for a mate. He wrote...