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Promiscuity

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 72 Collections and/or Records:

44.19 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Low grade mental defective, July 1945

 Item
Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"This girl is almost illiterate, IQ estimated at 70-. At 12 could barely write her own name. Is now at home, attracting soldiers."


Relatives in survey: Father 44.15, mother 44.16 siblings 44.14, 44.17. 44.18

Dates: Other: July 1945

44.21 Female, Married, 25-34 yrs, Hysteria, April 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"This woman is very fat and suffers from endocrine disturbance. Dr condsiders she is hysterical - frigid - "prim, randy, and a flirt". She married a ploughman as she was pregnant by him. Has the reputation of being unfaithful to her husband; ran around a good deal with Australians."


Relatives in survey: Mother 44.1

Dates: Other: April 1945

44.24 Male, Single, 15-24 yrs, Epilepsy, July 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"He is an epileptic or at least "subject to fits of an epileptic character". Not defective. Now in merchant navy. His mother is a bedswerver, carries on with other men, doesn't get on with her husband and has wanted to leave him in the past. A lot of family quarrelling."


Relatives in survey: Mother 44.59 aunt 44.36

Dates: Other: July 1945

44.59 Female, Married, 35-44 yrs, Anxiety neurosis, November 1945

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/41
Scope and Contents

"This woman is in an anxiety state, fainting and with cardiac symptoms. She is a bedswerver, has carried on with other men during her husband's absence in the army, has wanted to leave him in the past. Has said she will never live with him again but has made great preparations for his home-coming. 3 roomed cottage, very clean, very houseproud."


Relatives in survey: sister 44.36, son 44.24

Dates: Other: November 1945

45.52 Female, Single, 15-24 yrs, Psychopathic personality, September 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/42
Scope and Contents

"This girl is man mad, is always losing her domestic jobs because she is being found with a man in her bed. [Female informant] confirms that she was also dull. [Male informant] says she was a crage mentally but a twister, always losing money."


Relatives in survey: siblings 45.53, 45.51

Dates: Other: September 1946

16.250 Female, Single, 45-54 yrs, Schizophrenia, January 1947

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/15
Scope and Contents "Quite mad, dippy, is very annoyed because she thinks [name redacted] in Gretna is engaged to someone. Thinks people cry things after her in the street. Something went wrong with her own love affair. Doesn't work. Lives alone, mother dead. Nurse confirms - should be in the CRI. Very hallucinated and deluded, thinks the police tap on her window at night, interrupts the church service. Has private means. "Sex mania". Dr confirms: paranoid, hears voices, has delusions, is a terrible nuisance,...
Dates: Other: January 1947

28.131 Female, Separated or divorced, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, Dull and backward, July 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"This woman is immoral. Illegitimate, she lives with her mother and stepfather. Uncle a religious maniac. Husband, a mason, has left her and has taken the children with him. She has had one illegitimate child since husband left. [Male informant] confirms - a weakness sexually and mentally."


Relatives in survey: half siblings 28.43, 28.44

Dates: Other: July 1946

28.168 Female, Separated or divorced, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, October 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/27
Scope and Contents

"A holy terror "not a desirable case at all", hardly ever at work, a bit neurotic, the soldiers' friend, had a bad reputation. Not overcrowded, fairly clean."


Relatives in survey: 28.35

Dates: Other: October 1946

37.194 Female, 25-34 yrs, Psychopathic personality, October 1946

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S2/17/1/36
Scope and Contents

"A sexual maniac, has not control at all. Every unscrupulous man in the place has has something to do with her. Something seems to come over her. She has been working in the Timber Corps."

Dates: Other: October 1946

Minutes of the EGS Trust Management Committee Meeting, 9 Dec 1987

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Identifier: GD61/1/1/4/16
Scope and Contents

Topics discussed include: Scottish AIDS Monitor (SAM) moving premises; the University of Edinburgh's Gaysoc; the Edinburgh Gay Switchboard's (EGS) youth strategy; and a party for Friends of Gay Switchboard (FROGS).

EGS training is discussed including training evenings on religion, promiscuity, bereavement, and incest. Lesbian Line training is also discussed and a list of trainees and mentors for both Lesbian Line and EGS is provided.

Dates: 9 Dec 1987