Word: sexuality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casualties can only be guessed at, but they have been huge - even among the Japanese, who have had to fight General Plague, General Flood, and General Attrition. The Japanese sack of Nanking will go down in history as the greatest mass sexual orgy of modern times - thousands of women and girls were assaulted to top off the mass execution of thousands of civilians. The fall of Canton last October was equally extraordinary: fearful that the story of Nanking would be repeated, Canton's 860,000 residents virtually abandoned the city within a few hours of the Japanese arrival - probably...
...years Sigmund Freud has insisted on talking seriously about subjects that other people did not want to discuss. When he began lecturing on the sexual basis of neuroses, in Vienna in 1896, his worldly colleagues regarded him with the embarrassed annoyance reserved for those who hammer away at something people would rather not talk about, even if talking would teach them something. But for laymen, as Freud's theories spread, he emerged as the greatest killjoy in the history of human thought, transforming man's jokes and gentle pleasures into dreary and mysterious repressions, discovering hatreds...
Storms of Childhood. After examining a large group of neurotics, Freud was surprised to discover that they all had one thing in common: a frustrated sex life. The neuroses," he declared, "[are] without exception disturbances of the sexual function...
...existence of sex hormones is one of the most widely-known discoveries of modern biology. Androsterone and testosterone make a man manly, progesterone and estrone make a woman womanly. But in man and other highly evolved animals, the ordinary processes of life depend on other hormones which are non-sexual-such as insulin, the sparkplug hormone from the pancreas. Growth, according to the Carnegie Institution's Oscar Riddle, is due to a combined action of two pituitary hormones, prolactin and thyrotropin...
Last week Biologist John Robert Raper of Harvard turned up with something new under the scientific sun-a clear demonstration of the function in plants of hormones which are not growth hormones but sexual. The host: Achlya ambisexualis, a minute water fungus which Dr. Raper discovered some time ago in the Charles River...