The Republican., 1936-11-26
SEX, SEX, SEX-I'M SICK
OF 1T
BY STEPHEN LEAcocF

T IMAGINE that If all the world
went crazy-just a little bit
crazy, all in the same way-no-
body would know it.
I think that is what is happening
now. All the generations of today
are going-no, they've gone-"sex
crazy"
In the old Victorian days, now pass
ing out of memory women had quite a
different place from what they have
now. The men did everything and ran
everything, and women represented
Just the ornamental side of life and
the household side.
The only serious Job given over to
women was that Of the care Of sick.
They didn't really know anything
about it-had never seen a clinical
thermometer but they filled the sick
room with flowers (carbonlc acid gas)
and sat and did needle work beside the
bed. It wasn't bad. People often got
well.
Then things began to change. Wom-
en- began to get educated. to break
into the colleges. to vote. to carry on
professions. Everybody knows all
that. 1t wouldn't have mattered so
much If the ornamental stuff had
dropped off with 1t: women dressed
like ash barrels would have sat on
committees with men in overalls.
But instead of that there arose all
the new "sex-stuff" that has trans
formed the world since the days of the
early nineties that some of us still re-
member as the days Of our youth.
From the magazines the girls face,
as the emblem Of the present sex en-
slavement, spread everywhere. A gro
cery firm wants to order Christmas
calendar for their customers What
design do they put on it?-a ham? a
cheese? a Bologna sausage? That's
what they used to do. in the early
nineties, and skilled artist of those
days could combine those three things
with charm that made your mouth
water.
But now, oh no!-just a great, girls
face-or at most girls face eating a
Bologna sausage and saying, "How do
you like my BolOgnaP"
They put girls faces now on cal
endars, on book jackets, on posters and
placards; next year they are going on
bills, invoices and government blue
books.
The worst Of 1t Is that presently
people began inventing a new set of
words to go along with the new sex
stuff.
The biggest and most successful was
"sex-appeal." No one heard Of any
thing Of that sort In the early nine
ties. But all the Miss Americas are
supposed to have it: and the men and
all the women 60 round looking for it.
This "sex-appeal, l,"-whatever the
thing ISIS now supposed to be quite
a qualification. Men who have It
would feel f1attered to be told about
it In my time back in the early
nineties 1t would sound like telling a
man that he had a skunk tied to him.
Now it is quite different. I imagine
that people nowadays would get a
job on the strength of 1t or would lose
a job for want Of It.
I think that one thing that helped
along all this ''sex-appeal" stuff was
the fact Of women getting into games.
Lawn tennis came first. They were in
that from the start. Back In the nine.
ties we didn't look on lawn tennis as a
game in the real sense. 1t was just
a sissy business on lawn,-played
with girls as part Of an afternoon
party. We could all play It of course
but the real games were football and
baseball and cricket. Nobody played
tennis well, or wanted to. Those Of
US who were six and half feet high
could beat the rest Of us,-by hitting
the ball down at US: little short fellers
the height of the net got no show.
Then came golf. In the early nine
ties nobody played golf but a few
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