THE FACTOR OF SEX IN GERMANY
Water, Marjorie Van De
The Factor Of Sex In Germany By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Science Service Psychology Writer Washington IF reports coming from Germany are true, that there are 5 women to every 2 men there, that is...
...If your sex drives are not satisfied, you must find some sort of substitute satisfactions or you will be very unhappy...
...Which effect it has probably depends upon the amount of the frustration as well as upon the temperament of the frustrated person...
...Men in armies get along for years without any adequate satisfaction for their sex needs...
...With the human mind, it takes an obstacle of some kind or some feeling of need before you are aroused to do anything...
...Hunger must be satisfied or you die...
...Women, as well as men, can live without sex...
...Although the sex drive is one of the most fundamental and powerful in human nature, it is not like hunger and thirst...
...A little frustration does no harm, but too much is damaging...
...Many have lost those dear to them in battle or at the hands of the vicious Gestapo...
...It has one of two effects...
...THE women of Germany have had to face so much frustration in recent years, that the present inability of large numbers to have husbands and families and a healthy, normal sex life may seem minor to them...
...The Factor Of Sex In Germany By MARJORIE VAN DE WATER Science Service Psychology Writer Washington IF reports coming from Germany are true, that there are 5 women to every 2 men there, that is no reason necessarily to expect any emotional explosion or mass neurosis as a result...
...Many have been deprived of their homes by bombing oTby forced evacuation...
...It may make you fighting mad, or it may put you into a state of hopeless apathy...
...Not that frustration of sex needs, or any other primary needs, is good for mental health...
...When the result is aggression, unfortunately the aggression is not always directed sensibly against the cause of the frustration...
...Frustration is a new-fashioned word that means the same as privation, or want, or defeat, or restraint...
...In physics, you must have some resistance before any work can be done...
...All have had to live for 12 years under the complete domination of Hitler, with no freedom of speech or life...
...a bullet shooting through the air has plenty of energy but it doesn't do any work until it hits the target...
...Many have had to serve as slave or semi-slave laborers...
...TOO much frustration is bad...
...In America, as well as in Germany, there are many women who live their whole lives unmarried and manage to achieve perfectly useful, reasonably happy existences...
...The German ideal family, with the dictatorial (even if benevolent) father as absolute head, which has served as model for the militaristic state, may disappear...
...It is interesting to speculate on the social effects of a 5-to-2 proportion of women in Germany...
...It may give the available men an exaggerated evaluation of their own importance, because the woman who "gets her man" will have to put down considerable competition...
...It can be turned against any victim or may end in purposeless rioting where everyone is attacking his own neighbor...
...Frustration to the human mind acts like "resistance" in the world of physics...
...Many have had to get along for years with an inadequate diet...
...But, on the other hand, many German women are going to be forced to get along without men and will, in so doing, gain a new sense of independence that may make it impossible for German men ever to restore the old order of "Church, children, and kitchen...
...But no one actually dies of unrequited love...
...The violence may even be turned on the self and cause suicide...
...So a little frustration is good for you...
...When the result is apathy, the effect is even worse for mental health...
Vol. 9 • June 1945 • No. 23
