Attitudes to venereal disease in a permissive society.

Attitudes to venereal disease in a permissive society.

The subject of permissiveness is charged with emotion, and it is difficult to know what one's attitude should be. Excessive virtue as the goal of a puritanical outlook is as undesirable as it is unattainable, and we may doubt how much former family influence, so sadly lacking today, we would like to see return. We do not want parental tyranny, though some of us would relish more filial piety. W...

Venereal disease in India.

Maj. Salaman said that he was glad that this question had been asked, because he hoped to obtain some non-genital organisms. If any member would let him know when such strains had been isolated, he would be very grateful. He was not very hopeful that an ophthalmic strain would be fundamentally different from the others, but strains obtained on aspiration of the joints would be exactly suitable ...

Venereal disease problem in Sweden to-day.

The venereal disease morbidity in Sweden to-day shows a strange stability in the number of reported cases. The frequency trends of the different diseases since 1919 show congruent variations. The position to-day is difficult to explain and a comparison on an international level would be of great interest. Since January 1, 1919, every physician diagnosing a new case of venereal disease in a cont...

Venereal disease in New Zealand.

Social aspects of venereal disease. II. Relationship of personality to other sociological determinants of venereal disease.

With increasing recognition of venereal infection as a behavioural disease, considerable interest has been focused on the relationship of various psychosocial parameters to these diseases. Eysenck's (Eysenck and Eysenck, 1964) refinement of the personality inventory has provided a useful tool for obtaining quantitative indicators of one such parameterpersonality. The personality of venereal dis...