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Sex instruction

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = AMS

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Group of male and female residents, female interviewer, 29 April 1963

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/3/2
Scope and Contents INTVEEs noted lack of shops, there were to be some coming in 1964 but only a barber and a chip shop which they didn't want. Fridges and washing machines are not thought to be a luxury but a necessity and should have been put in the flats. They had originally been supplied in the prefabs but misused and taken out. INTVEEs are not impressed with the Corporation as landlords - their complaints didn't get anywhere and tenancies were not transferred to children. General agreement that owning a...
Dates: Other: 29 April 1963

Material used in the preparation of The Sexual State: sexuality and Scottish governance 1950-80, 2000s-2010s (date of notes themselves), 1927-1980s (date of source material)

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Identifier: Coll-1497/1
Scope and Contents This series of papers of Professor Roger Davidson is composed of his notes and research material used in the preparation of his book The Sexual State: sexuality and Scottish governance 1950-80, which was published by EUP in 2012. It includes material on Scottish sex education policy; Scottish input to debate on law on homosexual offences; Scottish Churches' views on homosexuality, prostitution, and censorship; censorship in Scotland in the 1950s-70s; views...
Dates: 2000s-2010s (date of notes themselves); 1927-1980s (date of source material)

Res.3.1 Group of women resident in the same block of corporation flats, female interviewers, 1 May 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/3/1
Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Breast feeding; generational differences in child rearing; sexual relationships and sex education; neighbour relations.One INTVEE thinks there are not enough schools by which the INTVER thinks she means Catholic schools. All INTVEEs agreed there was pressure to breast feed, although all thought it was the exception with the main reason for not breast feeding being embarrassment. They thought they were more prudish about this than the older generation and...
Dates: Other: 1 May 1961

Res.4.25 Female resident, age unknown, married, corporation tenant, female interviewer, 24 October 1961

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Identifier: EUA IN1/ACU/S3/4/2/4/25
Scope and Contents Topics discussed include: Marital relations; family finance; sex education; pregnancy and child rearing.Marital Relations: INTVEE was pregnant at the time of the interview and worried about her husband's drinking and violent and aggressive behaviour. INTVR observes broken door panels but INTVEE blames this on one of her sons. INTVR writes "she told me she had 'fell' again". INTVEE had talked to her doctor who had promised he would speak to her husband next time he was in but he...
Dates: Other: 24 October 1961